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A CHP 1 on Every Concentrix Solar CPV Plant

Soitec’s concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) power plants use lenses to focus direct sunlight onto small, extremely efficient solar cells. To check that the output is optimal a CHP 1 pyrheliometer is mounted directly onto the frame of the tracking panel.

Surya Design Characterises CPV Modules with Kipp & Zonen Instruments

The Surya Design CPV (Concentrated Photovoltaics) Test Suite includes all the hardware and software required to characterize the performance of CPV modules. Along with other parameters, this characterization requires measurement of both the direct normal solar irradiance seen by the sun-tracking ...

SOLYS 2 Sun Tracker at CNIM’s Solar Concentrator Module

Originally named Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée, CNIM has an active environmental division that specialises in energy production from the treatment of household and industrial waste and biomass. Now the company is expanding into Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems. CNIM design ...

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.

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 ...

Kipp & Zonen ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited Calibration Service

We are proud to announce that the radiometric calibration laboratory at our factory in Delft, the Netherlands has been accredited to the EN ISO/IEC 17025 quality management standard for the sensitivity calibration of our pyranometers and pyrheliometers.

CREST investigates the benefits of AirShield® DNI in a less obvious climate

We, the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) of Loughborough University, were one of the first to install the AirShield® DNI for pyrheliometers since Kipp & Zonen redesigned it and started manufacture. The Applied Photovoltaics group at CREST specializes in improving the perfor ...

Solar Farms, PV arrays in Spain

Spain is one of the leading countries in Europe when it comes to collecting solar energy. ‘Solar Farms’ are becoming a common sight, with hundreds of acres covered by PV arrays. The efficiency of these must be monitored. Our CMP series pyranometers fulfill the requirements of the IEC 60904 stand ...

Monitoring solar radiation to improve PV efficiency

Efficiency is an important factor in the research and development of Photovoltaic (PV) systems. But it does not solely depend on the quality of the system. Location, angle and maintenance also have an impact on the end result.

Russian Solar Radiation Monitoring Network

In Newsletter 12 we announced that Kipp & Zonen won the international tender to supply 18 solar monitoring stations to the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet). These will be installed at key locations across Russia and are part of the major pro ...

UK Sun Photometer Network

With the increasing interest in climate change and global warming research, the effects of stratospheric aerosols are being studied in greater detail. Primarily, this refers to water vapour and suspended particles such as smoke, dust, sand and ash. These absorb and scatter solar radiation, act a ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Moldova’s Solar Monitoring Station

Collecting accurate, long-term solar radiation measurements can help increase scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate, and researchers in the Republic of Moldova are doing just that through their country’s solar radiation monitoring station.

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 ...

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 ...

A Visit to the Rothera Station, Antarctica

Primarily I was down in the Antarctic to commission some new instrumentation that we had installed at our Rothera Station, which is located on Adelaide Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. My arrival at the station coincided with a spell of good weather, with scarcely a cloud in the sky.

Visit to China Meteorological Administration

After our International Sales Meeting in Penang, Malaysia Kipp & Zonen Business Managers Clive Lee and Ruud Ringoir visited the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) at their headquarters in Beijing and at their research centre and BSRN station in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia. The visit was orga ...

Automatic Real-time Monitoring of CSP Power Plant Mirror Soiling Rates

TraCS is a new measurement system that allows for an easier, more precise and more effective measurement of the soiling level of solar mirrors. It is the outcome of a collaborative study by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for Solar Research and the Université Mohamed Premier of Oujd ...