TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ford, Ethan
AU  - Peters, Ian Marius
AU  - Hoex, Bram
TI  - Quantifying the impact of wildfire smoke on solar photovoltaic generation in Australia
JO  - iScience
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
SN  - 2589-0042
CY  - St. Louis
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2024-03624
SP  - 108611 -
PY  - 2024
AB  - The 2019–20 Australian wildfires caused extreme haze events across New South Wales (NSW), whichreduced photovoltaic (PV) power output. We analyze 30-min energy data from 160 geographicallyseparated residential PV systems in NSW with a total capacity of 312 kW from 6 Nov 2019–15 Jan2020. The observed mean power reduction rate for PV energy generation as a function of the fine par-ticulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration is 13 G 2% per 100 mg/m 3 of PM 2.5 . The resulting energy lossfor residential and utility PV systems is estimated at 175 G 35 GWh, equating to a worst-case financialloss of 19 G 4 million USD. We found the relative impact to be most significant in the mornings andevenings, which may necessitate the installation of additional energy storage. As PV systems are sen-sitive to smoke and become ubiquitous, we propose employing them to support wildfire detection andmonitoring.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 38323003
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001401419100001
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108611
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1027071
ER  -