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Solar Carports Monitored with CMP 11 Pyranometers

Every rooftop can be turned into a source of power. “So why not the rooftop of a carport?” is what the City of Industry thought when developing a new solar facility at the Metrolink public train station in Southern California, U.S.A.. Thanks to Trimark Associates Inc. this 1.5MW (AC) power gener ...

CMP 11 on ‘Smartsol’ Solar Station

The new Smartsol weather station from the EMI division of EMI-SEPAME SA near Tours in France is dedicated to solar energy prospecting and monitoring solar energy power installations. Smartsol delivers accurate real-time information about solar radiation, wind, humidity, and other meteorological ...

Road Conditions

There is an ever increasing requirement to ensure the safety of those who travel by car. This naturally has increased the demand for exact and precise information about road conditions. Data such as this can literally be a life saver, particularly in cold climates or where roads may become slipp ...

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 ...

Mercedes-Benz gets tested with Kipp & Zonen's pyranometer

The legendary Death Valley, on the border between California and Nevada, provides exceptional thermal conditions. The Mercedes-Benz test team considers this to be ideal for testing their new Magic Sky Control glass roof for the next generation SLK. To ensure that measurements are verifiable and ...

Solar Simulator to Test PVT Performance

In 2011 PSE AG of Freiburg, Germany, provided the Cologne Solar Energy Assessment Centre of TÜV Rheinland with a new steady state solar simulator. This test bench is to be used for measuring photovoltaic modules, thermal solar collectors and combinations of both technologies, known as PVT, for t ...

How to measure Photovoltaic Performance

Testing the performance of a PV panel is important in the decision making of plant building and purchase. Test laboratory Albarubens chooses the best possible test conditions by setting up their tests in natural sun light rather than in artificial light. The Kipp & Zonen CMP 11 Pyranometer help ...

The new CMP10, because we know what makes a secondary standard pyranometer better

Practice makes perfect, and as a result Kipp & Zonen launches a new addition to its well-known CMP series of pyranometers. The CMP10 is a secondary standard pyranometer that reduces maintenance and has the best price-quality-performance ratio on the market. The secret of this new development lie ...

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.

Improving Solar Radiation Data in Brazil

The Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) is part of the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia of Brazil and one of their key projects is SONDA (Sistema de Organização Nacional de Dados Ambientais). Among the goals of SONDA is the collection of meteorological and radiation data at sever ...

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 ...

PV Monitoring for Research and Education

With new solar cell technologies coming onto the market, comparison between the different types gets harder and harder. This is especially the case in areas with less than optimal solar conditions, such as the Netherlands. To get a better understanding of the differences in real life conditions ...

PV performance on La Réunion

On the French island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, we find an interesting application within the project ‘Performance PV France’. Kipp & Zonen pyranometers measure the solar radiation received by photo-voltaic cells on fifteen different planes, which represent a semi-hemisphere.

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 ...

Solar Energy Challenges in the Gobi Desert

The Gobi is a large desert region in Northern China and Southern Mongolia. It is a cold desert with frost, and occasionally snow, occurring on its dunes. The climate of the Gobi is one of great extremes, ranging from -40°C in winter to +50°C in summer, combined with rapid changes of temperature ...

Solar Instruments applied to Vehicle Testing by Hyundai America Technical Center

Hyundai America Technical Center Inc. (HATCI) is the design, technology and engineering arm for all North American models of the global vehicle manufacturer Hyundai-KIA Motors Group. At HATCI cars are being tested to the extreme with the aim to exceed customer demands and provide the best qualit ...

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 ...

Measuring Irradiation is Critical to PV Projects in Chile

Chile is located in South America, between high mountain ranges and the coast. The geography of the country covers at least seven major climatic subtypes ranging from the driest desert in the world, the Atacama, to alpine tundra and glaciers in the south. In addition, the extreme topography of t ...

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 ...

Data Acquisition Specifically Designed for Utility Scale Solar Farm Weather Monitoring

With climate change and pollution becoming important issues globally, it is important for governments and industry to continually respond to changes in technology and the environment. The government of Ontario has made a commitment to renewable energy and has therefore created the Feed in Tariff ...