Greece is characterized by abundant solar potential due to its
geographical position and climatological regime. According to
Matzarakis and Katsoulis [36]; in the interior mountainous areas
(Western Macedonia, Epirus, Central Greece) the annual and seasonal
bright sunshine is lowest and increases towards the coasts of
the Ionian and Aegean seas, and towards the southern part of
Greece. As it appears from the sunshine duration records of the
Hellenic National Meteorological Service, for the years 1960e1990
the lowest values of annual sunshine duration were found in Mikra
(40.31 N, 22.58 E), while Ierapetra (35 N, 25.35 E) experienced
the highest values reaching more than 3000 h of sunshine annually.
Therefore, Greece has a strong potential of solar electricity generation,
especially during cloudless summer days. For example, a
typical crystalline silicon PV system established in an urban