Thank you Jeremiah for the link. Lots of datasets there, but there don't seem to be any free hourly actual solar data else where than for northern Europe.
/Lukas
--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, CleanTech Analytics <jeremiah@...> wrote:
>
> Lukas,
> You might find the solar data you are looking for here:
> http://en.openei.org/datasets/search/luceneapi_node/SOLAR
>
>
> *Jeremiah D. Crossett*
> *CleanTech Analytics*
> *503-688-8951*
> * www.cleantechanalytics.com* < http://www.cleantechanalytics.com>
>
>
> *
>
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>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, rokkas80 <lukas.rokka@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Well, I should add it's a beta release so I won't guarantee the conversion
> > is working 100 % correct at this point. Here's a link for validation
> > against measured data in Sweden
> > http://strang.smhi.se/validation/validation.html. I'll be testing it
> > against measured data from Finland as well. The modeled solar radiation
> > data from STRÅNG covers northern Europe, if anybody knows where to get
> > modeled hourly solar data for rest of the world I'll be happy to add it to
> > the program.
> >
> > /Lukas
> >
> >
> > --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, CleanTech Analytics <jeremiah@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks- I will try it out--
> > >
> > > So it creates AMY files correct?
> > >
> > >
> > > *Jeremiah D. Crossett*
> > > *CleanTech Analytics*
> > > *503-688-8951*
> > > * www.cleantechanalytics.com* < http://www.cleantechanalytics.com>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > *
> > >
> > > This document may contain valuable information proprietary to CleanTech
> > > Analytics which is private and confidential. It may not be shared,
> > copied,
> > > stored or transmitted in any form without the prior written consent of
> > > CleanTech Analytics
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:40 AM, rokkas80 <lukas.rokka@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > **
> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > As part of my degree project I've made a tool for retrieving and
> > > > converting real-time weather data to be used in EnergyPlus or IDA ICE.
> > > > You get access to weather data for about 2000 weather stations in
> > northern
> > > > Europe, from 1999 up till last month. The tool can also be used to
> > retrieve
> > > >
> > > > The tool retrieves weather observation data from Integrated Surface
> > > > Database (ISD), http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd, and modeled
> > > > solar radiation data with an 11x11 km resolution over northern Europe
> > from
> > > > STRÅNG, http://strang.smhi.se. Merges and interpolate data, and fills
> > in
> > > > missing data gaps if necessary. Then using EnergyPlus own Weather
> > Converter
> > > > the data is converted to EPW-format.
> > > >
> > > > Here's a dropbox link to the installation software:
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/4oinwavgmc8n0j9/Setup%20Real-Time%20Weather%20Converter.msi
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Lukas Lundström
> > > > (lukas.rokka@)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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