Preliminary assessment of the photovoltaic electricity production

Project Carhuaz
Geographical coordinates -9.280041°, -77.643879° (-09°16'48", -77°38'38")
Report generated 09 Sep 2020
Generated by Global Solar Atlas
Map link https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?s=-9.280041,-77.643879,10&pv=small,0,14,1
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Project Carhuaz
Location Carbonero Carhuaz, Avenida La Merced 936, Carhuaz, Áncash, Peru
Geographical coordinates -9.280041°, -77.643879° (-09°16'48", -77°38'38")
Time zone UTC-05, America/Lima
Elevation 2667 m
ncash, Peru
PV system configuration

Small residential Photovoltaic system mounted on a tilted roof of a residential building. Azimuth and ti

System size 1 kWp

Tilt of PV panels 14 °
Azimuth of PV panels 0°
ential building. Azimuth and tilt of the PV modules are homogeneous and the modules do not shade each other. The modules a
shade each other. The modules are mounted on rails attached to a tilted roof, thus allowing back-side ventilation. This type of
back-side ventilation. This type of PV system is usually directly connected to a low-voltage grid through an inverter. No electrici
d through an inverter. No electricity storage is considered.
Map data

Direct normal irradiation DNI 2382 kWh/m²

Global horizontal irradiation GHI 2377 kWh/m²
Diffuse horizontal irradiation DIF 675 kWh/m²
Global tilted irradiation at optimum angle GTI_opta 2438 kWh/m²
Air temperature TEMP 15.1 °C
Optimum tilt of PV modules OPTA 14 °
Terrain elevation ELE 2667 m
Monthly averages

PVOUT_specific PVOUT_total DNI

kWh/kWp kWh kWh/m²
Jan 143 142.66 179
Feb 128 127.61 142
Mar 141 141.47 147
Apr 151 150.95 182
May 164 164.38 227
Jun 162 162.28 241
Jul 172 172.05 257
Aug 177 177.39 254
Sep 162 162.47 206
Oct 158 157.77 198
Nov 144 144.02 186
Dec 136 136.48 168
Yearly 1840 1839.54 2388
Average hourly profiles

Total photovoltaic power output [Wh]

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0
3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0
4-5 0 0 0 0 0 0
5-6 0 0 0 0 0 0
6-7 26 16 11 11 8 4
7-8 159 144 156 200 224 188
8-9 340 320 336 395 423 424
9 - 10 501 487 504 555 583 582
10 - 11 624 618 641 675 691 690
11 - 12 687 687 710 735 741 740
12 - 13 684 682 691 723 730 736
13 - 14 571 574 586 639 660 680
14 - 15 446 447 422 504 552 587
15 - 16 301 305 276 346 408 447
16 - 17 184 188 164 193 233 270
17 - 18 73 83 65 55 50 61
18 - 19 6 6 2 0 0 0
19 - 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 - 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 - 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 - 23 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 - 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sum 4602 4557 4564 5031 5303 5409

Direct normal irradiation [Wh/m²]

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0
3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0
4-5 0 0 0 0 0 0
5-6 0 0 0 0 0 0
6-7 139 60 0 0 0 0
7-8 427 349 335 464 567 490
8-9 547 462 446 584 703 777
9 - 10 656 577 557 674 791 858
10 - 11 733 673 665 753 849 903
11 - 12 761 709 703 777 866 913
12 - 13 736 667 647 744 836 899
13 - 14 587 529 511 640 763 850
14 - 15 451 395 345 525 688 794
15 - 16 333 274 234 415 606 720
16 - 17 259 210 176 320 488 619
17 - 18 159 175 117 168 168 222
18 - 19 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 - 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 - 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 - 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 - 23 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 - 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sum 5788 5080 4736 6064 7325 8045
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
3 8 38 71 68 45
181 193 247 262 244 188
420 441 459 456 427 362
586 609 625 613 571 516
696 718 727 714 670 620
752 777 765 751 713 664
752 774 738 699 674 654
705 723 655 590 558 518
611 625 530 447 421 384
474 476 372 300 272 253
295 292 208 152 145 146
74 87 50 35 38 49
0 0 0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
5549 5723 5414 5090 4801 4401

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 102 283 275 212
498 489 560 548 523 427
 795 786 714 675 643 547
876 871 809 770 723 655
918 911 842 817 772 718
934 928 829 803 780 726
923 913 773 715 716 691
880 861 676 596 587 512
819 796 573 474 460 377
754 719 471 360 344 272
651 613 368 262 269 199
251 319 134 96 105 83
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
8299 8206 6851 6399 6197 5419
Acronyms and glossary

Acronym Full name Unit Type of use

DIF Diffuse horizontal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average yearly, monthly or d
DNI Direct normal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average yearly, monthly or d
ELE Terrain elevation m, ft Elevation of terrain surface
GHI Global horizontal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
GTI Global tilted irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
GTI opta Global tilted irradiation at optimum angle kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
OPTA Optimum tilt of PV modules ° Optimum tilt of fix-mounted
PVOUT_specific Specific photovoltaic power output kWh/kWp Yearly and monthly average
PVOUT_total Total photovoltaic power output kWh, MWh, GWh Yearly and monthly average
TEMP Air temperature °C, °F Average yearly, monthly and
 erage yearly, monthly or daily sum of diffuse horizontal irradiation (© 2019 Solargis)
erage yearly, monthly or daily sum of direct normal irradiation (© 2019 Solargis)
evation of terrain surface above/below sea level, processed and integrated from SRTM-3 data and related data products (© 201
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global horizontal irradiation (© 2019 Solargis)
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global tilted irradiation (© 2019 Solargis)
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global tilted irradiation for PV modules fix-mounted at optimum angle (© 2019 Solargis)
ptimum tilt of fix-mounted PV modules facing towards Equator set for maximizing GTI input (© 2019 Solargis)
arly and monthly average values of photovoltaic electricity (AC) delivered by a PV system and normalized to 1 kWp of installed
arly and monthly average values of photovoltaic electricity (AC) delivered by the total installed capacity of a PV system (© 2019
erage yearly, monthly and daily air temperature at 2 m above ground. Calculated from outputs of ERA5 model (© 2019 NOAA a
 and related data products (© 2019 SRTM team)

optimum angle (© 2019 Solargis)

© 2019 Solargis)
normalized to 1 kWp of installed capacity (© 2019 Solargis)
d capacity of a PV system (© 2019 Solargis)
ts of ERA5 model (© 2019 NOAA and NASA)