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Bhutan Solar Resources

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GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans solar resource. SUNY researchers generated the estimates of GHI and DNI using images collected at hourly intervals between December 2002 and January 2007 from the European Meteosat 5 and 7 geostationary satellites. NREL used the GHI data to generate estimates of the resource potential at latitude tilt, and to create the solar resource maps. This submission includes GIS resources of the results for this study. This data can be used to help with energy production and infrastructure planning in Bhutan.

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TY - DATA AB - GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans solar resource. SUNY researchers generated the estimates of GHI and DNI using images collected at hourly intervals between December 2002 and January 2007 from the European Meteosat 5 and 7 geostationary satellites. NREL used the GHI data to generate estimates of the resource potential at latitude tilt, and to create the solar resource maps. This submission includes GIS resources of the results for this study. This data can be used to help with energy production and infrastructure planning in Bhutan. AU - Heimiller, Donna A2 - Gilman, Paul A3 - Cowlin, Shannon DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - KW - Bhutan KW - GIS KW - data KW - solar KW - direct normal irradiance KW - DNI KW - global horizontal irradiance KW - latitude tilt KW - shape file KW - geospatial KW - geospatial vector KW - solar irradiance KW - solar radiation KW - processed data KW - energy KW - renewable energy KW - PV KW - photovoltaic KW - solar thermal LA - English DA - 2014/11/25 PY - 2014 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory T1 - Bhutan Solar Resources UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/139 ER -
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Heimiller, Donna, et al. Bhutan Solar Resources. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 25 November, 2014, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/139.
Heimiller, D., Gilman, P., & Cowlin, S. (2014). Bhutan Solar Resources. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/139
Heimiller, Donna, Paul Gilman, and Shannon Cowlin. Bhutan Solar Resources. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, November, 25, 2014. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/139
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_139, title = {Bhutan Solar Resources}, author = {Heimiller, Donna and Gilman, Paul and Cowlin, Shannon}, abstractNote = {GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans solar resource. SUNY researchers generated the estimates of GHI and DNI using images collected at hourly intervals between December 2002 and January 2007 from the European Meteosat 5 and 7 geostationary satellites. NREL used the GHI data to generate estimates of the resource potential at latitude tilt, and to create the solar resource maps. This submission includes GIS resources of the results for this study. This data can be used to help with energy production and infrastructure planning in Bhutan.
}, url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/139}, year = {2014}, howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/139}, note = {Accessed: 2025-05-08} }

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Submitted Nov 25, 2014

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Donna Heimiller

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Donna Heimiller

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Paul Gilman

National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL

Shannon Cowlin

National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL

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