Preliminary assessment of the photovoltaic electricity production

Project Panamá
Geographical coordinates 9.024607°, -79.534969° (09°01'29", -079°32'06")
Report generated 17 Feb 2025
Generated by Global Solar Atlas
Map link https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?s=9.024607,-79.534969,10&pv=medium,180,12,7
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Project Panamá
Location Ancón, Panamá, PAN
Geographical coordinates 9.024607°, -79.534969° (09°01'29", -079°32'06")
Time zone UTC-05, America/Panama [EST]
Elevation m
PV system configuration

Medium size comercial Photovoltaic system mounted on a large horizontal roof of a commercial or industria

System size 70 kWp

Tilt of PV panels 12 °
Azimuth of PV panels 180 °
of a commercial or industrial building. Azimuth and tilt of the PV modules are homogeneous. The modules are fix-mounted on
The modules are fix-mounted on tilted structures, attached to the flat roof and aligned in rows. Thus, during low sun angles, th
ws. Thus, during low sun angles, the modules may be partially shaded by preceding rows.
Map data

Direct normal irradiation DNI 1176.8 kWh/m²

Global horizontal irradiation GHI 1743.5 kWh/m²
Diffuse horizontal irradiation DIF 909 kWh/m²
Global tilted irradiation at optimum angle GTI_opta 1770.4 kWh/m²
Air temperature TEMP 25.9 °C
Optimum tilt of PV modules OPTA 12 °
Terrain elevation ELE m
Monthly averages

PVOUT_specific PVOUT_total DNI

kWh/kWp kWh kWh/m²
Jan 135.7 9,496.6 138
Feb 130.4 9,128.7 130.1
Mar 137.7 9,639.0 123.8
Apr 118.8 8,318.9 99.9
May 107.3 7,510.4 87.2
Jun 98.3 6,880.0 82.2
Jul 101.1 7,077.5 78.3
Aug 106 7,417.1 82.4
Sep 107.1 7,498.8 86.7
Oct 112.3 7,864.4 93.7
Nov 100.5 7,036.4 81.7
Dec 115 8,050.8 105
Yearly 1370.3 95918.6 1188.9
Average hourly profiles

Total photovoltaic power output [Wh]

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0
3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0
4-5 0 0 0 0 0 0
5-6 0 0 0 0 0 0
6-7 222 232 719 1575 2007 1709
7-8 8218 8077 9439 10916 10071 8695
8-9 21741 22037 22430 22608 19555 17040
9 - 10 32317 32851 32033 30598 26554 23754
10 - 11 38566 39677 38402 35598 31367 28546
11 - 12 41259 43180 41262 37560 33540 31168
12 - 13 40977 43433 40412 36975 34571 33389
13 - 14 37897 40940 38047 32408 29036 29366
14 - 15 33323 36035 33470 27229 23364 22705
15 - 16 27310 30201 27700 21602 16875 16757
16 - 17 18166 20551 18917 14315 10675 10851
17 - 18 6344 8540 7737 5651 4358 4845
18 - 19 0 273 368 262 299 508
19 - 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 - 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 - 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 - 23 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 - 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sum 306340 326027 310936 277297 242272 229333

Direct normal irradiation [Wh/m²]

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0
3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0
4-5 0 0 0 0 0 0
5-6 0 0 0 0 0 0
6-7 12 12 30 61 75 67
7-8 259 252 249 258 223 198
8-9 446 442 395 367 293 257
9 - 10 509 501 431 380 313 284
10 - 11 503 503 443 382 323 298
11 - 12 491 499 433 371 331 312
12 - 13 464 489 396 356 351 349
13 - 14 430 461 393 311 291 305
14 - 15 412 434 364 270 231 231
15 - 16 395 426 347 237 169 179
16 - 17 349 375 308 204 126 141
17 - 18 181 251 202 132 87 105
18 - 19 0 0 0 0 0 15
19 - 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 - 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 - 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 - 23 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 - 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sum 4451 4645 3991 3329 2813 2741
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
1324 1268 1708 2232 1650 683
8006 8650 10403 11917 11377 9665
16739 18094 20372 21913 21670 21791
23828 25633 27581 28849 27883 30300
28720 30516 32855 33724 32065 34795
31153 33387 35268 36349 33092 35572
33144 33379 34775 35071 31264 33672
28754 29652 30732 30186 27057 30225
22727 23966 24452 23830 21877 26603
17021 17596 17190 17059 15694 20611
11107 11552 10747 10070 9166 12663
5145 5147 3877 2490 1752 3123
640 421 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
228308 239261 249960 253690 234547 259703

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
50 54 73 91 67 28
178 195 232 262 258 255
 252 266 298 319 330 394
281 299 315 331 327 425
289 310 342 344 327 405
293 323 347 365 313 368
318 313 341 355 289 335
267 280 312 301 251 306
207 223 246 243 210 292
163 168 174 192 171 267
120 128 131 159 148 232
91 99 80 60 30 80
15 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
2524 2658 2891 3022 2721 3387
Acronyms and glossary

Acronym Full name Unit Type of use

DIF Diffuse horizontal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average yearly, monthly or
DNI Direct normal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average yearly, monthly or
ELE Terrain elevation m, ft Elevation of terrain surface
GHI Global horizontal irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
GTI Global tilted irradiation kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
GTI opta Global tilted irradiation at optimum angle kWh/m², MJ/m² Average annual, monthly or
OPTA Optimum tilt of PV modules ° Optimum tilt of fix-mounted
PVOUT_specific Specific photovoltaic power output kWh/kWp Yearly and monthly average
PVOUT_total Total photovoltaic power output kWh, MWh, GWh Yearly and monthly average
TEMP Air temperature °C, °F Average yearly, monthly and
 erage yearly, monthly or daily sum of diffuse horizontal irradiation (© 2024 Solargis)
erage yearly, monthly or daily sum of direct normal irradiation (© 2024 Solargis)
evation of terrain surface above/below sea level, processed and integrated from SRTM-3 data and related data products (SRTM
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global horizontal irradiation (© 2024 Solargis)
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global tilted irradiation (© 2024 Solargis)
erage annual, monthly or daily sum of global tilted irradiation for PV modules fix-mounted at optimum angle (© 2024 Solargis)
ptimum tilt of fix-mounted PV modules facing towards Equator set for maximizing GTI input (© 2024 Solargis)
arly and monthly average values of photovoltaic electricity (AC) delivered by a PV system and normalized to 1 kWp of installed
arly and monthly average values of photovoltaic electricity (AC) delivered by the total installed capacity of a PV system (© 2024
erage yearly, monthly and daily air temperature at 2 m above ground. Calculated from outputs of ERA5 model (© 2024 ECMW
 and related data products (SRTM v4.1 © 2004 - 2024, CGIAR-CSI)

optimum angle (© 2024 Solargis)

© 2024 Solargis)
normalized to 1 kWp of installed capacity (© 2024 Solargis)
d capacity of a PV system (© 2024 Solargis)
ts of ERA5 model (© 2024 ECMWF, post-processed by Solargis)