Stupid question: I was told Underground Weather (Wunderground.com) can tell you the amount of solar energy reaching the ground per square meter (W/m^2) somewhere in all the data presented for any particular city. Maybe it’s staring me right in the face, but I can’t find it. Maybe a SDoper has needed this data before?
“somewhere in all the data presented for any particular city”
i looked for this too----as i was curious how much solar energy i could get if i installed some panels.
The solar energy data is only available if that particular weather station has a solar intensity sensor (or whatever it’s formally called).
Unfortunately, wunderground doesn’t have a search filter to find such stations (that i know of)----you’re going to have to click on each station until you find one station that shows the solar radiance data-----it will be located under the wind speed/wind direction data…
There is a calculator there for how much energy you can generate:
http://www.wunderground.com/calculators/solar.html
It’s based on various (select-able) models.
I didn’t see anything for actual data, however.
Thanks, all! And, I’ll be sure to check out the link, Digital is the new Analog posted.