Estimation of 5-min solar global irradiation on tilted planes by ANN method in Bouzareah, Algeria

Calculation of solar global irradiation on tilted planes from horizontal global one is difficult when the time step is small. We used an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to realize this conversion at a 5-min time step for solar irradiation data of Bouzareah (Algeria). The ANN is developed and optimized on the basis of two years of solar data (1.5 year or training and 0.5 year for test) and the accuracy of the optimal configuration is around 8% for the nRMSE.