Solar Energy Resource Assessment Using GHI and DNI Satellite Data for Moroccan Climate

Omaima El Alani (1, 2) , Hicham Ghennioui (3) , Mounir Abraim (3, 2) , Abdellatif Ghennioui (2) , Philippe Blanc (4) , Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan (4) , Zakaria Naimi (2)

1 LISAC, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
2 iRESEN UM6P - Green Energy Park
3 LISAC - LISAC, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
4 O.I.E. - Centre Observation, Impacts, Énergie

Book cover Book cover International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Humanity ICATH 2021: Advanced Technologies for Humanity pp 275–285Cite as Solar Energy Resource Assessment Using GHI and DNI Satellite Data for Moroccan Climate Omaima El Alani, Hicham Ghennioui, Mounir Abraim, Abdellatif Ghennioui, Philippe Blanc, Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan & Zakaria Naimi Conference paper First Online: 29 January 2022 456 Accesses 1 Citations Part of the Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies book series (LNDECT,volume 110) Abstract Solar energy is in rapid development in Morocco. Thanks to its geographical and climatic location, the Kingdom of Morocco is privileged to develop large-scale solar energy exploitation. The knowledge of the solar potential in a given site is crucial for most solar energy applications. The present study aims to evaluate the energy potential in several cities in Morocco to provide guidance to solar energy users about the available amount of energy. The assessment was done using 10 years of data from the Helioclim3 satellite database. In addition to the solar potential analysis, we performed a classification of the days to determine the dominant climatology based on the clear sky index. The results showed the dominance of clear days toward all study sites, and selected sites may be a promising location for solar projects with annual global horizontal irradiation reaching 2075 kWh/m2 and direct normal irradiation reaching 2463 kWh/m2.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Sciences de l'environnement; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Omaima El Alani, Hicham Ghennioui, Mounir Abraim, Abdellatif Ghennioui, Philippe Blanc, et al.. Solar Energy Resource Assessment Using GHI and DNI Satellite Data for Moroccan Climate. International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Humanity, Nov 2021, Rabat (MOROCCO), Morocco. pp.275-285, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-94188-8_26⟩. ⟨hal-03935369⟩