IEA PVPS Task 16 – Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large Scale Applications
Abstract
The joint Task of IEA Technological Collaboration Programmes PVPS and SolarPACES started in July 2017 and will last till 2020. The Task 16 is also collaborating with SHC. 21 countries and 57 institutions are currently part of the Task. It offers a unique platform of exchange for private and public organizations as well as data providers and science organizations. A strong emphasis on extra gain of collaboration will be promoted. Benchmarks, standardizations, state-of the art descriptions and dissemination will be in the focus. Main added values are: lower resource uncertainties and higher forecast accuracies, which will lead to lower implementation costs of PV and CSP projects. At SWC we will show the state of the work. The second year was used to exercise benchmarks and workshops. Three benchmarks were organized. One about methods to calculate regional power forecasts, a second about forecasts based on all sky imagers and a third one about site adaptation methods. Three workshops where held. The first workshop covered best practices for automatic and expert based quality control procedures and gap filling methods, the second probabilistic forecasting and the third – during SWC 19 - benchmarking of site adaptation methods.