Estimation of Solar Irradiance on Solar Fields: An Analytical Approach and Experimental Results

An extensive experiment has been designed and conducted to measure the magnitude of solar irradiance falling upon a photovoltaic solar field. The experimental results show that the second and succeeding rows received less solar irradiance than the first row. In addition, there was a degradation of the solar irradiance along a single row directing toward the center of that row. Nowadays, all available models are addressing the solar radiation...