Silicon Border Site gets 5,695 Annual Kilowatt Hours of Solar Irradiation for CSP and 6,517 Annual Kilowatt Hours for PV, according to NREL data.
Meteonorm 6.1 is a comprehensive meteorological reference, incorporating a catalogue of meteorological data and calculation procedures for solar applications and system design at any desired location in the world. The database exists of a climatological data of 8.055 weather stations worldwide.
The Perez model was used for calculation of diffuse and plane of array (POA) irradiance. The weather and irradiance data of the Mexicali site, Mexico, Meteonorm hourly synthetic file will then be imported to PVSYST and used for the system simulation.
