Research Article

Improved Synthesis of Global Irradiance with One-Minute Resolution for PV System Simulations

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Frequency distributions of the clearness index for Lindenberg (Germany, 2005). With the new method, the RMSE between measurement and synthesis can be reduced significantly (RMSE = 596 and 862 counts for Aguiar and Skartveit and RMSE = 207 counts for new method).