Solar Direct Normal Irradiance (KWh/m2/year) resource in West Africa

The resource was developed by CENER (The National Renewable Energy Center, Spain) for ECREEE. High resolution data of 1km x 1km developed using Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model from hourly meteorological weather files of over 10 years.

Dataset is provided in raster format (.geotiff) at a resolution of 1 km.

It ranges from 1200 to 2800 KWh/m2/year. Around 87% of the total surface of the ECOWAS region has long term annual DNI values greater than 1800 KWh/m2.

Date (Publication): 2012-09-01T00:00:00

Presentation form: Digital map

Status: Completed

Point of contact

ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) - Jafaru AbdulRahman

Point of contact

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Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

Theme

DNI, solar resource
ECOWAS, West Africa
Renewable energy resource
GeoTIFF
Solar, Power plant, energy, PV
CENER

Access constraints: License

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