Thermal solar energy use: Modeling and optimization

Abstract

The sun in Norway is a very important source of energy due to the large number of hours of sunshine there are in the spring and summer months. For this reason this source of energy could replace the oil and part of the electricity consume in these months. In the last years, a lot of sources of energy have been studies and solar energy is one of the cheapest, because the energy of the sun is free, and the cost of the system is less than other systems for capture energy, such as photovoltaic energy. This type of energy depends a lot on the weather conditions so different weather conditions will be simulated and analyzed.