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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 ...

Practical Guideline for distributors

How do I place an order? Who can I contact when I have a technical question? Where can I find information? All this is explained with some practical tips and procedures.

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 ...

RaZON+ Fully Tested and Ready To Go

The first RaZON+ systems have left the factory in Delft, the Netherlands, to provide irradiance measurements to customers in the meteorology, solar energy and industrial markets. An important part of the development traject to get the RaZON+ ready for customers was testing. It started with the f ...

Arkema’s Smart House

Yohan Boulenouar - Upstream R&D - Projet Smart House - Bostik is a leading global adhesive specialist in industrial manufacturing, construction and consumer markets. For more than a century, it has been developing innovative adhesive solutions that are smarter and more adaptive to the forces tha ...

Everything a technical advisor wants to know about RaZON+

My name is Patricia Darez; I am a Director of 350renewables, which is a consultancy that specialises in providing technical and commercial advice to investors, operators and developers of renewable energy projects from the early stages through to full operation. Our main offices are currently in ...

The DustIQ arrives at the Green Energy Park

One month ago, on valentine’s day, I got up at 4 in the morning. Not to surprise my wife with a breakfast but to catch a flight to Marrakesh in Morocco to visit the Green Energy Park of IRESEN (Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies). With me I brought two new DustIQ’s PV soiling m ...

Successful DustIQ test installation in Southern Spain

I’ve just returned from Spain where I installed a new test setup for DustIQ at Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA). This solar research site is located in the Tabernas Desert, 30 km from Almeria and is a perfect location to challenge our DustIQ to a dusty environment.

Inside the Ruicheng PV Pioneer Project

You may know that most of the PV panels in the world are manufactured in China. But something you may not know is that, according to official statistics, in 2016 China produced 57.7 GW of PV panels and the new generating capacity in China was 34.54 GW. The total capacity was 77.42 GW by the end ...

New weatherproof data and power hub for smart instruments

In response to customer demand for an easy way to connect together and power several of our digital Smart instruments, we have developed a new device specifically for this purpose; the Smart Hub. It comes in two versions, one to pass through power from an external DC supply and a ‘Powered’ versi ...

International Standards for Solar Energy Technology: ISO 9060, IEC 61724-1, ISO 9846 and 9847, ISO/IEC 17025

For the solar energy industry a number of international standards have been defined. These are standards relating to PV plant operation and maintenance, but some are also applicable to the design, procurement and construction phases of your PV plant. If you design your solar project to meet a pa ...

China's second PV Pioneer Project

China’s solar energy capacity continues to grow explosively. In 2017 about 54 GW was planned to be put in place. The forecast for 2018 is said to be 55 GW. One of the largest solar power plants is in Datong with a capacity of 1,000 MW so far and will grow to 3 GW in the next coming phases. Alrea ...

Scientific Solar Monitoring System

Kipp & Zonen Scientific Solar Monitoring Station for high accuracy measurements of direct, diffuse and global irradiance according BSRN guidelines.

SOLYS2 Sun Tracker

Fully automatic sun tracker with integrated GPS at BSRN level.

SOLYS Gear Drive Sun Tracker

Fully automatic sun tracker with highest load, widest temperature range and best performance

Smart Powered Hub and Smart Hub

The Smart Hub is a passive 6 to 1 weatherproof hub for 2-wire RS-485 connections. The Smart Powered Hub adds a heavy duty 2.2A power supply.

Picture Solar Applications-04 Sun Trackers-SOLYS 2 with CHP 1 (I)

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Picture Solar Applications-04 Sun Trackers-SOLYS 2 with CHP 1 (II)

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Choosing the right data logger for your Kipp & Zonen CMP series pyranometer

Kipp & Zonen receives a lot of questions about whether a particular data logger is suitable for use with our instruments. These are mainly from the solar energy sector, where users are less familiar with the signal output than in meteorology and climate research. Let me share my experiences on d ...

Hot topics in monitoring solar irradiance

We have a lot of contacts with existing and prospective customers in the solar energy industry; at exhibitions, in workshops or by email and through the Kipp & Zonen support system. Many of the same issues keep coming up, in one form or another.