Analysis of solar radiation in Uganda (a case study of Kasese, Jinja and Soroti Districts)
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2014
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International Journal of Current Research
Abstract
Solar energy is an alternative to fossil fuels for more
huge potential to meet many times the present world energy demand. Readily available solar radiation
data is a key to design and simulation of all solar energy applications
hour data is considered which were obtained from the meteorological Department, Entebbe. The
sunshine hour’s data got were measurements from 2007 to 2012, from three stations of Jinja, Soroti
and Kasese. These stations are well spread throughout the country a
view of the level of solar radiation in the country. It was observed that Soroti had high monthly
averages compared to Jinja and Kasese with three minima occurring in April, July and November.
This analysis revealed that
June to August in all the three stations. Low sunshine hours are encountered from November to
December and lowest March to May. the distribution of mean sunshine interval from the three
stations indicate that more sunshine occurred in Soroti with the average value of all the data recorded
between 2007 and 2012 being 8.2 followed by Jinja with a value of 7.1 and finally Kasese with the
lowest value of 6.1 hours.
lower interval range is observed across all the months implying that overcast days were either followed by a clear or partially clear days. Therefore Uganda encounters bright sunshine days most of the time in the year
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Solar radiation, Shine hours, Mean sunshine interval
Citation
Biira, S., & Kilama, G. (2014). Analysis of solar radiation in Uganda. International Journal of Current Research, 6(8), 8110-8115.
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