Solar energy forecasts for an optimized sustainable energy production in Sub-Saharan Africa (ICP-P)

Project start: 01.03.2024

Duration: 2 years

Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Project lead: Harald Kunstmann

Involved scientists: Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann, PD Dr.-Ing. Jan Bliefernicht, Dr. Windmanagda Sawadogo (IMK-IFU)

Summary

The main objective of this project is to develop an energy-meteorological forecasting system to generate optimized global horizontal irradiance (GHI) forecasts for solar power plants in Senegal, with lead times of up to 72 hours. This is being done through the implementation and evaluation of the WRF-Solar model and its extension WRF-Solar Ensemble Prediction System (EPS).