This paper proposes to use a rather new statistical approach in the realm of solar radiation modelling namely Bayesian inference. In this work, the theory of Bayesian inference will be presented at length. The Bayesian analysis consists in two levels. The first one is related to the parameter...

To assess the viability of proposed solar installations, knowledge of global solar radiation is not sufficient. For stationary photovoltaic plant, we require global radiation series, but also the contemporaneous diffuse radiation series. Alternatively, for concentrated solar thermal, we need...