0

9
2
6
3
8
7
4
1
Global irradiation and solar electricity potential
Horizontally mounted photovoltaic modules

Açores

Madeira

1600

1700

1800

1900

2000
Funch al

Yearly sum of globa l irradiation

2
[kW h/m ]

<1400

1500
<1050

1125

1200

1275

1350

1425

1500
Yearly su m of solar electricity
gen erated by 1kW psystem
with performance ratio 0.75

Urba n area
[kW h/kWpeak]

Pro jection:

Source of an cillary data:

Ponta
Delgada

Sintra

Lambert Azimutal Equa l Area,

WGS84, lat 52º lon 10º
CORINE La nd Cover
DTM SRTM-30
GISCO da tab ase
Geonames,N atu ra l Earth
10°0'0"W

Lisboa

Setúbal

Portim ão

Joint
Research
Centre
Santarém

Faro
Vian a do Castelo

Aveiro

Evora

Beja

Authors:
Porto

Coimbra
Braga

Vis eu

0
8°0'0"W

Covilhã

Cas telo Branc o

25

Thomas Huld, Irene Pinedo-Pascua

PORTUGAL

Guarda

50

European Commission • Joint Research Centre

Bragança

Spain

100
Km

Institute for Energy and Transport, Renewable Energy Unit

PVGIS http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/
42°0'0"N
40°0'0"N
38°0'0"N