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Station Scientifique de Surveillance Solaire

Station scientifique de surveillance solaire de Kipp & Zonen pour des mesures ultra précises de rayonnement solaire direct, diffus et global, conformément aux directives du BSRN.

The Kanzelhöhe Observatory in Austria

The Kanzelhöhe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research is located on the Gerlitzen, a mountain near Lake Ossiach and the city of Villach in Carinthia, the southernmost state of Austria. The observations take place at the western edge of the Klagenfurter Basin at 1526 m above sea level, ...

Solar Monitoring in Project PrédiSol

In April 2011 French companies TOTAL, Bertin Technologies and ARMINES signed an agreement to pull their skills to carry out research for the PrédiSol project. This focuses on improving the estimation tools for long term solar resource data derived from satellite imagery and specific campaigns of ...

Solar Resource Assessments in South Africa for Concentrated Solar Power Developers

The Department of Energy of the South African Government has established a target for renewable energy production to reach 10,000 GWh by December 2013. Of this, 6,000 GWh is expected to come from mainstream on-grid electricity generation.

Turkey’s Growing Research in Solar Energy

Solar energy is becoming increasingly important in Turkey, along with other renewable sources such as hydro and wind power. There is no grid connected system yet, but an infrastructure is planned to be realised very soon.

Solar Monitoring in Qatar

Launched in 2011, QEERI is the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute and a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. QEERI is conducting research in the areas of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), Efficient PV Systems and the effect of dust on Solar Co ...

SOLYS Gear Drive太阳跟踪器

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Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project

Australian electricity generator CS Energy has installed a Kipp & Zonen sun tracker and instruments at their Kogan Creek Power Station, to develop a detailed understanding of the local solar resource.

Consistent and Accurate PAR Data for the US National Ecological Observatory Network

With our ever growing population and intensified land use, the biosphere, the living part of Earth, is changing. Humans depend on water, food, light, energy and air; disruptions to the biosphere affect all life on earth. As a result, changes in the way that the biosphere can provide us with our ...

Energy Yield Studies and Optimisation of Solar Farms

Measuring the actual potential energy yield at a location is now standard in the wind power industry and is becoming more and more common in the solar industry. For this purpose Ge:Net GmbH of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Germany has developed a solar measurement station to precisely measure the sola ...

Solar Monitoring Station for Moscow Environmental Protection Department

A city can be compared to a complex living organism where it is important to keep all its organs and systems working well. The state of the urban environment is also similar to the health of a living organism and it needs continuous monitoring and diagnostics.

CMP 11 in Automatic Weather Stations in Mexico

Mexico is a country that possesses almost every climatic condition existing on Earth. Glaciers, tropical jungles, prairies and hot and arid deserts are all represented in its vast 2 million square kilometers! The task of the Meteorología of Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) is to monitor and ...

Encouraging Solar Energy in South Africa with SAURAN

Six universities from South Africa, and one each from Île de la Réunion and Botswana, are cooperating in the Southern African Universities Radiometric Network, SAURAN, to promote the use of solar energy in the Southern Africa Development Community(SADC) countries and to improve the quality of sa ...

A Solar Atlas for Saudi Arabia

In August 2014, Kipp & Zonen C.E.O. Foeke Kuik and I visited the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE) in Riyadh. K.A.CARE was established by Royal Decree A/35 of H. M. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on 17th April 2010 with the fundamental aim of building a sustainab ...

Monitoring Canada’s First Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plant

The small southern Alberta city of Medicine Hat is the first city in the world to operate a concentrating solar thermal power (CSP/CST) system in a high-latitude, cold weather location. It’s also the first city in Canada to have a solar powered steam generation system integrated into a combined ...

Leading PV in Datong, Shanxi with 14 Solar Monitoring Stations

Last year, China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) announced a total PV installation target of 18.1GW for 2016, within which 12.6 GW are for standard types of PV installations, including both ground-mounted PV and distributed PV projects. The additional 5.5 GW are for demonstration projects ...

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Chile, High Potential but Little Solar Data

Chile is a country that heavily depends on imports to provide its energy needs. Fossil fuels provide a large percentage of the primary energy consumption, whilst renewable energy sources are still very limited. Therefore, the Chilean government has adopted renewable energy quotas for electrici ...

Tackling Solar Energy’s Dust Problem

Due to the increasing interest in renewable energy resources around the world, solar plants are more frequently being installed in challenging conditions. Many of the locations are arid, desert-like areas, as they provide very high solar irradiance and the land is rarely used for other purposes. ...