A Survey of Direct Normal Insolation Resources for the Construction of Solar Concentrating Power Generation Sites in Korea

국내 고집광 태양에너지 발전단지 건설을 위한 법선면 직달일사량 자원조사

Since the direct normal insolation is a main factor for designing any solar thermal power system, it is necessary to evaluate its characteristics all over the country. We have begun collecting direct normal insolation data since December 1992 at 16 different locations and considerable effort has been made for constructing a standard value from measured data at each station. KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research)'s new data will be extensively used by solar thermal concentrating system users or designers as well as by research institutes. From the results, we can conclude that 1) Yearly mean 2.67 kWh/$m^2$/day of the direct normal insolation was evaluated for all days all over the 16 areas in Korea. 2) All day's direct normal insolation of spring and summer were 2.91 kWh/$m^2$/day and 2.23 kWh/$m^2$/day, and for fall and winter their values were 2.78 kWh/$m^2$/day and 2.77 kWh/$m^2$/day respectively. So, spring, fall and winter were higher, and summer was lower than the yearly mean value