Solar Variability

Thursday, April 18th: 1:15-2:45 PM

Moderator: David Renee, President, ISES

Presenters: Jan Kleissl, Laura Hinkelman, Alex Thornton, Matthew Reno

More details on each presenter/presentation below.

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Deriving Cloud Motion Vectors From a PV Power Plant On-Site Sensors

Authors: Juan L Bosch, Jan Kleissl
Presenter: Jan Kleissl, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, La Jolla, CA

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Relating Solar Resource Variability to Cloud Type

Authors: Laura Hinkelman, Manajit Sengupta, Andrew Heidinger, Aron Habte
Presenter: Laura Hinkelman, BA, MS, PhD, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Affiliations: University of Washington, Seattle, WA; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Madison, WIC

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Volatility and Deviation of Distributed Solar

Authors: Matthew Williams, Andrew Goldstein, Alex Thornton, Shawn Kerrigan
Presenter: Alex Thornton, Product and Analytics Manager, Analytics, Locus Energy, San Francisco, CA

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Using Cloud Classification to Model Solar Variability

Authors: Matthew Reno, Joshua Stein
Presenter: Matthew Reno, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA