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Solar radiation and PV maps - Europe (Africa)

The maps below represent yearly sum of global irradiation on a horizontal (inclined) surface; 10-years average of the period 1981-1990 [kWh/m²]. Alternatively the maps represent solar electricity [kWh] generated by a 1kWp system per year with horizontal (or inclined) modules.

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Šúri M., Huld T.A., Dunlop E.D. Ossenbrink H.A., 2007. Potential of solar electricity generation in the European Union member states and candidate countries. Solar Energy, 81, 1295–1305, http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/
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European countries and regions:

[AL] [AT] [BA] [BE] [BG] [CH] [CY] [CZ] [DE] [DK] [EE] [ES] [FI] [FR] [GR] [HR] [HU] [IE] [IT] [NL] [LV] [LT] [LU] [MT] [PL] [PT] [RO] [SE] [SI] [SK] [TR] [UK]

[Europe] [Alpine region] [West Balkan region] [Benelux]

Non-European countries and regions

Europe - global irradiation & PV potential for optimum angle A2 poster (pdf 11.5 mb) graphic file for publications (png 5.2 mb) graphic file for presentations (png 0.7 mb)
Europe, the Alpine region - Global irradiation and PV potential for optimum angle (full view)
West Balkan global irradiation for optimally inclined surface optimum inclination angle
Benelux countries global irradiation on optimally-inclined plane (full view)
Albania - global irradiation and PV potential for surface at an at optimum angle horizontal plane (full view) optimally-inclined plane (full view)
Austria - global irradiation horizontal plane (full view) optimally-inclined plane (full view)
Bosnia & Herzegovina) global horizontal irradiation global irradiation at the optimally-inclined plane
Bulgaria - optimally-inclined plane (full view)
Croatia - horizontal plane (full view)
Cyprus - optimally-inclined plane (full view)
			Czech Republic - horizontal surface colour version B&W version
Denmark - global irradiation horizontal plane (full view)
France global horizontal irradiation global irradiation at the optimally-inclined plane
Germany - yearly global irradiation horizontal surface optimum angle
		Greece G_horizontal G_optimum inclination generic PV electricity (optim. angle) c-Si PV electricity (optim. angle)
Hungary - global irradiation at the optimum inclined surface (full view)
	Italy global horizontal irradiation global irradiation for surface inclined to South at 45 degrees PV electricity from optimally-inclined modules
Luxembourg - horizontal (full view)
Poland optimum inclination (full view)
Romania - global irradiation at the optimum inclination (full view)
Slovakia horizontal irradiation irradiation at the optimum angle
Slovenia global irradiation at the optimally-inclined surface (full view)
Switzerland global horizontal irradiation global irradiation at the optimally-inclined plane
Spain & Portugal (full view)
Turkey - solar electricity from 1kWp
UK & Ireland (full view)

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