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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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...