If one is trying to identify the area in the region, where hybrid renewable energy is more appropriate, one would like to combine solar insolation and wind power data to be super imposed on one another. This may cater as feasibility analysis before going into the diurnal analysis of complementary nature of VREs at certain location.
Here is example of Conditional Probability of Insolation and Wind Normalized Daily data. I have used this data to calculate reliability of combined power supply.
Working Paper Conditional Probability of Insolation and Wind Normalized Daily data
It may be of no use to find out that solar and wind energy resources complement each other on a monthly basis - as most weather data are offered. You have to perform simulations in order to know the real situation of the hybrid plant. It does not help much to have simultaneity of wind and solar resources if your storage capacity is dimensioned for one of the sources only; it does not help if there are too long gaps in the availability along time, so that your storage capacity is not big enough, either. I do not believe in such a graphical representation.
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