ABSTRACT The utilisation of solar resources has become of utmost importance for the transition of the global, carbon intensive economy. In New Zealand the uptake of solar energy has increased substantially, but the relative contribution to the overall energy mix is still small. Previous research efforts on the solar resource across the country are revisited with improved satellite-modelled data from Solargis to derive a solar atlas for the country. A comparison is made with NIWA data, which shows that the modelled data are at an adequate level of accuracy and improves our understanding of the solar resource at an appropriate spatial and temporal resolution. The solar atlas makes available a commercial satellite data source and informs further investigations into how solar can, and will, play a more meaningful role in our transition to a low carbon future.

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来自卫星图像的新西兰太阳图集

摘要 太阳能资源的利用对于全球碳密集型经济的转型至关重要。在新西兰，太阳能的吸收量大幅增加，但对整体能源结构的相对贡献仍然很小。之前对全国太阳能资源的研究工作通过来自 Solargis 的改进卫星模型数据重新审视，以获得该国的太阳能地图集。与 NIWA 数据进行了比较，这表明建模数据具有足够的准确性，并以适当的空间和时间分辨率提高了我们对太阳能资源的理解。太阳能地图集提供了一个商业卫星数据源，并为进一步调查太阳能如何能够，并将，