Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications: Third Edition Edited by Manajit Sengupta, Aron Habte,1 Stefan Wilbert, Christian Gueymard, and Jan Remund

Solar energy technologies—such as photovoltaics (PV), solar heating and cooling, or concentrating solar power—provide solutions to the growing need for clean energy to mitigate climate change and to improve air quality. During the past few years, the use of solar energy has strongly progressed, in particular thanks to the impressive…