Horizontal Visibility Influence on the Brazilian Solar Energy Assessment: Surface and Model Data Intercomparsions
Abstract
Several studies indicates that the usage of renewable energy, especially solar, bring economic and social benefits. These benefits are associated with development of remote areas, which are not assisted by Brazilian interconnect energy system from conventional sources; with consequences to stability and planning of Brazilian energy programs to the reduction of direct dependence of fossil fuels and to the direct emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. However, a significant barrier to solar resource expansion as source of energy, to both electricity generation and water heating, is to provide reliable information required to understand available resources and its variability.