Sunrise Strategies: Maximizing Solar Energy Yields AMIDST Environmental Variabilities in Egypt

Climate change along with scalability in energy demands, urge nations and global organizations to search for scientific sustainable solutions in the energy production industry. Consequently, solar farms are poised to become a principal component in power grids, and especially in areas with favorable climatic (cloud-free) conditions combined with high solar irradiation averages on ground levels. Egypt has vast potential in solar energy production due to climate, landscape, and high mean solar energy yield that can generate energy that suffices to meet substantial portions of the annual energy demand. To maximize the energy production from energy farms in the region parameters and strategies that affect solar farms are investigated. Specifically, overcast conditions which affect greatly the solar farm’s performance have low concentration in Egypt, meaning that the focus on environmental parameters for specific regional phenomena such as aerosols and especially dust storms, hold a key role on these installations’ performance. These parameters are investigated by encompassing earth observation data from remote sensing MODerate (resolution Imaging Specto-radiometer) and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Finally, strategies and methodologies are considered to integrate these data on Benban Solar Park a photovoltaic power station located in south of Cairo.