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Heavy smoke reduces the amount of solar radiation that can reach solar collection panels, and understanding the magnitude of energy production impacts can benefit grid planning and operational decision-making [10]. Although our analysis focuses on analyzing historical data from the Western United States, the impacts of wildfire smoke on solar PV
By 2050, the U.S. plans to increase solar energy from 3% to 45% of the nation’s electricity generation. Quantifying wildfire smoke’s impact on solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is essential to meet this goal, especially given previous studies documenting sizable PV output losses due to smoke.
Thus, while most other studies report that smoke will negatively affect solar PV generation on a day-to-day or minute-to-minute basis 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, we demonstrate through an expanded CONUS-wide analysis of a longer time horizon that, on average, smoke will not greatly affect baseline solar PV resource availability.
While average GHI reductions of 11–17% can substantially impact the power grid, the spatial variability of smoke means that some areas may see GHI reduced up to 50%. Such a loss represents a substantial risk to PV production in California, particularly since clouds are rare, irradiance is high, and demand is at its peak during the summer.
“Even during extreme wildfire seasons with heavy smoke, as seen in 2020, we project little change in average PV resource availability, except in areas with optically thick, fresh, local smoke plumes,” the authors stated. The decreases caused by transported smoke typically stayed below 5 percent and, in some areas, less than 2 percent, Corwin noted.
The scale of the GHI reductions implies that the average impact of smoke plumes on PV resources is relatively minimal across the U.S., which is encouraging as grids incorporate more utility-scale battery storage capacity to provide greater stability when local smoke causes potentially large irradiance shifts at finer timescales.
PV resources remain relatively stable across most of CONUS even in extreme fire seasons. Wildfire smoke increasingly covers large swaths of the US at a time when solar energy is rapidly expanding. Yet, average photovoltaic solar resource losses remain modest outside areas immediately near active fires, where plumes are fresh and dense.
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