Preliminary assessment of the photovoltaic electricity production

Project Butuan
Geographical coordinates 8.825831°, 125.533782° (08°49'33", 125°32'02")
Report generated 07 Nov 2024
Generated by Global Solar Atlas
Map link https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?s=8.825831,125.533782,10&pv=ground,180,8,100
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Project Butuan
Location Butuan, Caraga, Philippines
Geographical coordinates 8.825831°, 125.533782° (08°49'33", 125°32'02")
Time zone UTC+08, Asia/Manila [PST]
Elevation m
PV system configuration

Ground-mounted large scale Large-scale commercial photovoltaic system mounted on leveled ground. Azimuth an

System size 1000 kWp

Tilt of PV panels 8°
Azimuth of PV panels 180 °
n leveled ground. Azimuth and tilt of PV modules are homogeneous, usually facing towards the Equator and inclined at the opti
he Equator and inclined at the optimum tilt to maximize yearly energy yield. The modules are fix-mounted on tilted structures a
fix-mounted on tilted structures aligned in rows.
Map data

Direct normal irradiation DNI 1316.5 kWh/m²

Global horizontal irradiation GHI 1765.9 kWh/m²
Diffuse horizontal irradiation DIF 803.5 kWh/m²
Global tilted irradiation at optimum angle GTI_opta 1779.2 kWh/m²
Air temperature TEMP 25.4 °C
Optimum tilt of PV modules OPTA 8°
Terrain elevation ELE m
Monthly averages

PVOUT_specific PVOUT_total DNI

kWh/kWp kWh kWh/m²
Jan 97.1 97,102.1 78.1
Feb 105.4 105,365.2 91.4
Mar 129.7 129,703.4 122.4
Apr 131.5 131,460.8 137.8
May 130.2 130,249.4 135.6
Jun 117.8 117,794.8 117.3
Jul 118.5 118,519.0 108.4
Aug 129.4 129,381.7 120
Sep 122.6 122,567.7 103.8
Oct 124.7 124,688.9 113.1
Nov 108.5 108,515.9 103
Dec 109.4 109,445.4 102.5
Yearly 1424.8 1424794.4 1333.3
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 0 141 5834 8358 7143
6-7 43543 49883 73817 112480 116710 101841
7-8 171729 195219 241564 282917 275640 243405
8-9 288437 337119 399566 437275 423583 381541
9 - 10 386344 451315 518829 549910 533816 489158
10 - 11 433849 508990 563631 600384 588216 551166
11 - 12 435177 522615 573457 593035 589597 564098
12 - 13 405802 488121 528749 550002 540558 521310
13 - 14 366677 439422 465766 479937 450899 440354
14 - 15 294241 366764 384272 376761 343875 315084
15 - 16 205079 259438 272909 256935 216193 196942
16 - 17 94128 130265 139812 125313 100001 96023
17 - 18 7321 13891 21468 11244 14144 18429
18 - 19 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 3132327 3763042 4183981 4382027 4201590 3926494

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 36 45 36
6-7 92 123 185 298 278 231
7-8 214 262 342 410 377 315
8-9 259 327 424 496 462 405
9 - 10 305 383 478 543 534 474
10 - 11 311 384 450 536 548 506
11 - 12 285 376 440 501 518 497
12 - 13 257 343 390 460 465 436
13 - 14 247 315 355 416 395 370
14 - 15 207 283 324 345 317 260
15 - 16 185 250 277 287 231 186
16 - 17 136 187 216 227 165 138
17 - 18 18 31 64 39 38 53
18 - 19 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 2516 3264 3945 4594 4373 3907
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
5366 4849 6392 8215 5822 0
88627 93485 106338 124991 112117 70305
223539 238178 254779 281760 255744 214096
358498 387958 408317 435994 384984 347575
464461 514521 524443 540765 469565 450885
526900 586438 586484 585476 508168 502788
541851 605414 590482 577714 499854 502975
506681 564569 537731 512961 453346 456221
430898 467984 443268 414704 388172 399844
331921 351226 328925 295145 291085 307816
217180 231792 207250 180173 188300 200478
104872 109991 84651 63593 60040 75727
22401 17199 6532 732 0 1786
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
3823195 4173604 4085592 4022223 3617197 3530496

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
25 20 22 33 24 0
190 197 181 237 247 158
264 277 260 316 316 271
 356 381 369 424 382 341
422 477 441 476 410 400
442 516 468 481 403 407
437 505 451 456 378 395
390 458 399 395 343 352
340 365 318 318 311 320
263 276 244 228 256 275
188 215 178 178 234 238
126 150 112 103 129 146
54 35 16 0 0 3
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
3497 3872 3459 3645 3433 3306
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)