Renewable energy (RE) resources such as solar are increasingly being used worldwide. Solar resource shows high availability, but presents an intermittent characteristic, causing oscillations in the electricity production. Intermittence is one of the main barriers for the use of solar plants in a system that needs to balance demand and electricity production. Aiming to contribute to a larger use of the solar resource in the world energy matrix, we propose a solar irradiance prediction methodology, developed from data collected in Fortaleza-CE (latitude: −03° 43′, longitude: −38° 32′). Predictions were developed using Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Back propagation Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the advance of 1 hour. In the best ANN performance, 41.9% of the predictions obtained up to 5% of error, 58.7% obtained errors lower than 10% and 68.6% obtained errors lower than 15%. MAPE (mean absolute percentage error) of 6.11% was found, which can be considered good, since errors found in previous works reached 20%.