Analytical study for the potential solar energy produced in Nibong Tebal

Abstract

Solar energy is green, free, long lifetime, and low maintenance. It mainly depends on the light produced by the sun and other environmental parameters such as ambient temperature, air pressure, etc. Two main meteorology parameters that affect directly the produced energy of solar arrays are light and temperature. Collecting the meteorology data is critical to study and estimate the potential energy available in any area. Long-time meteorology data collection is necessary to have more accurate estimation of the potential energy. A study of the meteorology data is done at Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia. In this work temperature and irradiance were collected to compute the photovoltaic (PV) sizing.