A comprehensive review on biomass and solar energy for sustainable energy generation in Nigeria

A Giwa, A Alabi, A Yusuf, T Olukan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa (7th most populous in the world) and it is
strategic to the realization of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by …

A review of the potential impacts of climate change on the safety and performance of bridges

A Nasr, I Björnsson, D Honfi… - Sustainable and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
An overabundance of evidence, both observational and from model projections, indicate that
changes to the climate system are taking place at unprecedented rates. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] Potential impacts of climate change on global solar radiation and PV output using the CMIP6 model in West Africa

ME Agbor, SO Udo, IO Ewona, SC Nwokolo… - Cleaner Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, six different PV power technology models from similar climatic environments in
West Africa were used to estimate the potential of PV generation and apply the model to …

Solar radiation prediction using different machine learning algorithms and implications for extreme climate events

L Huang, J Kang, M Wan, L Fang, C Zhang… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Solar radiation is the Earth's primary source of energy and has an important role in the
surface radiation balance, hydrological cycles, vegetation photosynthesis, and weather and …

A multi-model ensemble-based CMIP6 assessment of future solar radiation and PV potential under various climate warming scenarios

SC Nwokolo, JC Ogbulezie, OJ Ushie - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability of the hybrid evolutionary auto-regression integrated moving average (ARIMA)
with a transformed probabilistically optimized Gumbel (GP) model (ARIMA-GP) and …

Concentrating solar power technologies for solar thermal grid electricity in Nigeria: A review

O Ogunmodimu, EC Okoroigwe - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Grid electricity generation in Nigeria has been unstable for a long time now. With respect to
her continued dependence on oil and gas and seasonal variations on water level for …

Potential impact of climate change on solar resource in Africa for photovoltaic energy: analyses from CORDEX-AFRICA climate experiments

A Bichet, B Hingray, G Evin, A Diedhiou… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of renewable electricity in Africa could be massive in coming decades, as
a response to the rapid rising electricity demand while complying with the Paris Agreements …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning models for prediction of rainfall over Nigeria

OS Ojo, ST Ogunjo - Scientific African, 2022 - Elsevier
Investigating climatology and predicting rainfall amounts are crucial for planning and
mitigating the risks caused by variable rainfall. This study utilized two multivariate …

[HTML][HTML] Global solar radiation predictions in Fiji Islands based on empirical models

OM Oyewola, TE Patchali, OO Ajide, S Singh… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many difficulties associated with Global Solar Radiation (GSR)'variability in space and time
and with the angular position in sky hemisphere hamper its accurate knowledge. Fiji Islands …

Optimized random forest for solar radiation prediction using sunshine hours

CG Villegas-Mier, J Rodriguez-Resendiz… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Knowing exactly how much solar radiation reaches a particular area is helpful when
planning solar energy installations. In recent years the use of renewable energies …