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Record W4412651526 · doi:10.1016/j.solener.2025.113816

Spectral irradiance correction of photovoltaic energy yield predictions in six high-latitude locations with measured spectra

2025· article· en· W4412651526 on OpenAlex
Mandy R. Lewis, Victoria Jancowski, Christopher E. Valdivia, Karin Hinzer

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueSolar Energy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSolar Radiation and Photovoltaics
Canadian institutionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development CanadaLarus Technologies (Canada)
FundersNational Renewable Energy LaboratoryNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Space AgencyTotalCSA Group
KeywordsIrradiancePhotovoltaic systemLatitudeEnvironmental scienceAtmospheric sciencesYield (engineering)Spectral lineSolar energyHigh latitudeEnergy (signal processing)Solar irradianceMeteorologyRemote sensingMaterials scienceOpticsPhysicsGeologyAstronomy

Abstract

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As solar power is expected to supply over 16% of the world’s electricity mix by 2030, accurate energy yield prediction and forecasting is essential. The incident solar spectrum varies continuously, causing energy prediction error as sunlight deviates from the reference spectrum. This work quantifies spectral error in bifacial photovoltaic energy yield predictions, demonstrating instantaneous spectral impacts of −45% to +32% and annual impacts from +0.7% to +2.7% on energy yield. This work presents solar spectral impact analysis for seven North American locations (39.7–69.1°N). We apply measured spectra to bifacial fixed-tilt silicon modules using a 2D view-factor model. Ground-reflected and diffuse irradiance cause the largest spectral errors while direct irradiance is best-matched to reference conditions. This study indicates that spectral correction methods should be applied for bifacial systems or in locations with high diffuse fractions above 35%, representing over 75% of Earth’s landmass. These effects indicate current PV system designs underestimate diffuse and ground-reflected irradiance contributions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it