Mitigating Climate Change by the Development and Deployment of Solar Water Heating Systems

Table 1

Monthly solar insolation for major towns in Ogun State [1].

Monthly averaged insolation incident on a horizontal surface (kWh/m^2)
	OTA	ILARO	IJEBU IGBO	SHAGAMU	IKENNNE	ABEOKUTA	IJEBU ODE	IFO
January	5.570	5.200	5.320	5.300	5.320	5.500	5.280	5.240
February	5.740	5.410	5.480	5.480	5.500	5.700	5.490	5.450
March	5.660	5.410	5.370	5.480	5.460	5.640	5.460	5.430
April	5.340	5.180	5.210	5.250	5.230	5.350	5.210	5.200
May	5.010	4.710	4.790	4.790	4.770	5.090	4.760	4.720
June	4.510	4.000	4.150	4.070	4.050	4.570	4.040	4.000
July	3.890	3.910	3.880	3.990	3.980	4.000	3.950	3.910
August	3.730	3.920	4.040	3.990	3.980	3.790	3.980	3.980
September	4.050	4.040	3.960	4.120	4.100	4.110	4.090	4.060
October	4.620	4.520	4.440	4.590	4.560	4.700	4.550	4.510
November	5.180	4.900	4.950	4.980	4.960	5.110	4.950	4.920
December	5.370	5.120	5.210	5.200	5.190	5.350	5.170	5.130
Annual average	4.890	4.690	4.730	4.770	4.760	4.910	4.740	4.710

Average insolation for all the towns is 4.775 kWh/m².