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Four SOLYS 2 sun trackers at ACCIONA’s twin CSP plants

To monitor the performance of the two identical Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants, ACCIONA placed complete solar monitoring stations on both Palma del Rio I and II. Together they have four of our SOLYS 2 sun trackers in operation to provide the control rooms with input on the real-time direc ...

SOLYS 2 application: improving solar energy efficiency in the Pyrenees

The project PEGASE, located at the Themis solar test site near Targasonne in the Eastern Pyrenees, combines solar energy and gas-turbines to generate electricity. A SOLYS 2 sun tracker has been installed to analyse the site and the efficiency of the complete solar energy system.

Setting Up a SOLYS 2 in Brasov, Romania

On 24th October 2012 experts from Echipot S.R.L., our distributor for Romania, together with researchers from the Transylvania University of Brasov, installed and set up a solar radiation measurement system supplied by Kipp & Zonen.

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 ...

SOLYS 2 application: Sun Shines on JSMB building

The new John Molson School of Business (JMSB) of Concordia University in downtown Montréal, Quebec, Canada, will be the first building of it’s kind to have a Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) installation to generate both heat and electricity from the sun. It will be partly heated and powered by the ...

Solar Radiation Station Monitors Pollutants in Taiwan

Taiwan is located downwind of sources in East Asia of acid pollutants and dusts, and of Southeast Asian biomass burning emissions. Regional meteorological conditions are favourable for the airborne transport of these, and other pollutants, to Taiwan. The high-elevation Lulin Atmospheric Backgrou ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...