Titre |
Forecasted Changes in West Africa Photovoltaic Energy Output by 2045 |
Auteurs |
BAZYMOMO Serge Dimitri Yikwe [1],
LAWIN AGNIDÉ EMMANUEL [2],
COULIBALY Ousmane [3],
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Journal: |
Climate |
Catégorie Journal: |
Internationale |
Impact factor: |
0 |
Volume Journal: |
4 |
DOI: |
10.3390/cli4040053 |
Resume |
The impacts of climate change on photovoltaic (PV) output in the fifteen countries of the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was analyzed in this paper. Using a set of
eight climate models, the trends of solar radiation and temperature between 2006–2100 were examined.
Assuming a lifetime of 40 years, the future changes of photovoltaic energy output for the tilted plane
receptor compared to 2006–2015 were computed for the whole region. The results show that the trends
of solar irradiation are negative except for the Irish Centre for High-End Computing model which
predicts a positive trend with a maximum value of 0.17 W/m2/year for Cape Verde and the minimum
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Mots clés |
climate model; solar radiation; ambient air temperature changes; solar photovoltaic energy output; ECOWAS |
Pages |
1 - 15 |
Fichier |
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