Solar PV Webinars: A Roundup of Three Popular Sessions

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By Carla Roman November 04, 2024

Solar PV Webinars: A Roundup of Three Popular Sessions

The photovoltaics industry is regarded as one of the fastest-growing sectors in renewable energy. With advancing technological innovations, emerging trends blending how to use PV sites (AgroPV as an example), continual learning is critical for our customers and partners.

That’s why our team has compiled key solar PV webinars developed by our internal experts. These webinars provide critical insights to ensure you are maximizing the measurement and monitoring technology on your PV site.

Whether you are looking to refresh your knowledge on environmental monitoring for solar PV, or are actively seeking alternative solutions to your current measurement and monitoring solutions, the below webinars provide takeaways relevant at all stages of your PV project.

Webinar: Optimizing Your Pyranometer Performance

This webinar, developed using ISO 9060:2018 Class C, Class B, and Class A pyranometers from Kipp & Zonen provides best practices to optimize the overall performance of installed pyranometers on PV sites.

From installation, maintenance, and calibration requirements, our team of PV experts provide valuable insights to O&M companies during this webinar.

Expected Learnings

Throughout the Solar PV Webinar: Optimizing Pyranometer Performance, you’ll walkthrough:

The ISO 9060:2018 industry classification for pyranometers.
The importance of data accuracy from sensors measuring global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and plane of array irradiance (POA).
Best practices for how to mount your pyranometers.
How to connect your pyranometers and the type of signal outputs.
Recommended maintenance and calibration for your irradiance sensors.
Running site confidence checks for your pyranometers.

Webinar: Measuring DNI, DHI, and GHI on PV Sites

Led by our internal radiation expert, this webinar delves into granular detail on what solar radiation is, what makes up solar radiation, and how best to accurately capture and measure solar radiation.

For this webinar, our team used the Kipp & Zonen SOLYS2, SOLYS Gear Drive, and RaZON+ sun trackers as reference points. An introductory overview of these sun trackers is also provided along with best use cases for optimal readings.

Expected Learnings

This solar PV webinar is of particular benefit if you’re interested in best practices and varying models to make up a complete solar monitoring station. You’ll also get an expert overview on:

What is solar radiation and its main components (direct, diffuse, global).
The value and importance of measuring direct, diffuse, and global solar radiation.
Best practices for measuring solar radiation across your PV site.
A breakdown of the Kipp & Zonen Precision Automatic Sun Trackers.
How to make up a complete solar monitoring station.

Webinar: Leveraging Smart Weather Sensors on PV Sites

This Solar PV webinar brings to focus our Lufft line of meteorological sensor technology. Today, measuring the meteorological parameters on your PV site is critical for understanding the variables that could be impacting output and creating fluctuations in plant performance.

This webinar is useful for those interested in PV site monitoring and for those curious about smart weather sensors and how you can leverage this technology for plant optimization.

Expected Learnings

Looking to achieve a new performance benchmark for your solar PV plant? If so, this webinar will showcase how measuring temperature, wind, humidity, and other weather parameters can get you to that next stage in performance.

During this webinar you’ll gain an understanding of:

The meteorological measurements most important for PV monitoring.
How performance ratio on a utility-scale PV site is affected by certain weather parameters.
Lufft’s modular concept for their Smart Weather Sensor series.
Best practices for using and optimizing weather and environmental sensors on your PV site using on-site examples.

Conclusion

These webinars for solar PV will provide you and your team with new insights and best practices to support your solar performance goals.

From solar radiation to pyranometer optimization, and monitoring weather parameters, these on-demand webinars provide useful knowledge applicable at any stage of your plant’s lifecycle.

Be sure to check out our other solar PV webinars on topics such as soiling and follow us on LinkedIn to sign up for our upcoming webinars. Be sure to follow our blog to stay up-to-date on our latest content, including presentations, podcasts, and more. To learn more about our professional environmental monitoring solutions for solar PV, contact our team of technology and industry experts.

Note: This article was originally published under OTT HydroMet. As of April 2026, we are now known as Kipp & Zonen. The content has been reviewed and remains accurate.

Carla Roman

With my background as a journalist in NYC and as a Content Manager for B2B firms in the USA and the Netherlands, I'm excited to bring my passion for telling stories with impact to OTT HydroMet. As a Marketing Campaign Manager for the Solar Team, my goal is to bring awareness to our work so we can continue safeguarding our environment through renewable energy.

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