Solar Resource Articles
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Expanding Multimodal Transport Hubs to Centralize Electric Vehicle Charging
As cities expand, they need more sustainable and effective modes of transportation. Hubs for multimodal transportation, which combine several forms of transportation, might be useful. Nonetheless, it's critical to focus and provide electric mobility incentives to advance sustainable transportation. These hubs provide commuters with a range of alternatives as they are furnished with features ...
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How to Choose the Right Sun Tracker?
A complete measurement of solar irradiance includes global (GHI), direct (DNI), and diffuse (DHI or DIF) radiation. To accomplish this, a high-quality solar monitoring station typically comprises an automatic sun tracker fitted with instruments to measure these components individually. Depending on the application, long-wave radiation and reflected short-wave radiation may be added to provide the ...
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Soiling Research at Green Energy Park with DustIQ
One of the first customers to use DustIQ was Green Energy Park in Morocco, to support research field tests. Since February 2018, OTT HydroMet's DustIQ Soiling Monitoring System has been on their site and measuring the on-site soiling ratio. Green Energy Park (GEP) is a research center, a training platform and a testing facility located in the green city of Ben Guerir, mid-south of Morocco ...
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Project - Several key steps of the renewable project development process
Are you considering developing a solar project on your land, rooftop or lake ? If so, Anliatec is your partner to understand and implement the necessary steps of solar project development. 19 projects complete 32 MWp installed 13 micro-hydro turbines 6 PV plants built ...
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Project - Encouraging Solar Energy in South Africa with Sauran
Six universities from South Africa, and one each from Île de la Réunion (Reunion Island) 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 satellite-derived solar data available for the ...
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4 Ways a Solar Design Service Can Boost Solar Sales
Even before social distancing drastically expanded remote work, remote PV system design was a smart choice. According to NREL, remote solar design software can reduce solar costs by up to $0.17/W. However, remotely designing a PV system requires a reliable 3D model to provide an accurate calculation of the system’s potential energy production. Fortunately, you don’t have to do ...
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COVID-19 Stimulus Package: Where Does the Solar Industry Fit In?
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act—also known as the CARES Act—was signed into law. This $2 trillion stimulus package is the largest emergency aid passed in U.S. history, and though there are indirect benefits for the solar industry, it’s not enough. COVID-19’s Impact on the Solar Industry Due to the coronavirus, the solar industry ...
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Getting Started with Remote Solar Sales
Making the transition from meeting your customers in-person to conducting your solar sales 100% remote for the first time can seem daunting, but it can be done. Some of the most successful and fastest growing solar companies have already adopted remote sales processes. Several advantages of remote selling include increased territories, lower customer acquisition costs, zero travel, and increased ...
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Installation Tips for Solar Powered Lights
Homeowners and businesses interested in reducing their energy consumption, maintenance costs, and energy bills are going solar because of it s sound investment. The initial costs can be reduced by looking for high-quality solar powered street lights for sale. There are, however, several things to watch out for in order to make the most out of solar outdoor lighting. Here are a few guidelines on ...
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What’s stopping microgrids?
The perfect solution exists. Why don’t we have it? The massive blackouts that blanketed California in October cut power to more than 100,000 businesses. Hospital chains Sutter Health and Adventist Health were forced to cancel procedures and close facilities. Some Trader Joe’s and other supermarkets shuttered for days. Factories scrambled to find backup generators and fuel to run ...
By Bloom Energy
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A Review of the Historical and TMY data now on offer through the API Toolkit
In this post, Solcast dives into its historical and TMY data offering. This includes a brief review of methods plus the basics on historical time-series data, typical meteorological year data and monthly averages data.TMY and time series data for the solar powered future Building off Solcast’s announcement last week that we are now offering historical and TMY data, under the continued ...
By Solcast
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Cerro Dominador CSP developer plans larger plants in Chile
The ground-breaking 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP plant could start commissioning by end of 2019 and the fund-owned developer is studying larger projects at three other sites in northern Chile, Francisco Vizcaino, Project Director at Cerro Dominador, told New Energy Update. After a troubled start, Latin America's first utility-scale CSP plant is now in the final stages of construction. Located ...
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Utility-Scale Solar: Maximizing Project Profitability with Trackers
Watching the prices recently for utility-scale solar power-purchase agreements has felt a bit like being a spectator at an ultra-competitive Olympic event, where each successive race delivers a new world record. The headline-grabbing 1.79 cents per kilowatt-hour tender announced in Saudi Arabia this past October is just one indicator of a global trend, in which PPA prices have been steadily ...
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Optimizing Wind and Solar Power in Africa
Editor's Note: The following is a news release authored by Julie Chao and issued by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 5, 2017 To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
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Announcing Shade Reports
We just launched an easy way to remotely report shade losses to rebate authorities and solar financing agencies. Now when you simulate a report you'll see a View Shade Report button that will automatically assess the Tilt and Orientation Factor (TOF), Solar Access %, and Total Solar Resource Factor (TSRF) for every module. This data is then summarized by field segment for easy ...
By Folsom Labs
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Want to improve wind and solar power? Bring them together
By combining intermittent renewable energy sources through hybrid projects, developers are taking advantage of the strengths of each. What’s keeping solar and wind power from fully taking over the electric grid? For starters, the sun only shines during the day. Wind blows intermittently, is seasonally variable, and is not always blowing when the energy is needed. But what if solar and wind ...
By Ensia
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Morocco`s first CSP plant forges path to tech-led cost cuts
The imminent start-up of Morocco's Noor I CSP Plant will be followed by lower cost adjacent plants thanks to technology gains such as larger trough apertures which have eclipsed the impact of higher cost dry cooling systems, Driss Berraho, Business Development Manager at ACWA Power, told CSP Today. A consortium led by ACWA Power started construction on the 160 MW Noor I project in Ouarzazate, ...
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Green Acres, the largest solar farm in Western Canada
Hutterite colony invests in solar for business reasons You’ve seen them before, though they don’t tend to stand out. Hutterites—women in bright coloured, identical dresses and men in somber, dark jackets and hats. They’re almost always at the farmer’s market on a Saturday morning selling fresh eggs, carrots and potatoes. This quaint image of a quiet people is a ...
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India’s PV-led solar growth casts eyes on performance of CSP projects
India's CSP industry is seeking maximized output from Reliance Power’s 125 MW Fresnel-based plant and progress in four parabolic trough projects to provide competitive cost references in a market pressured by PV growth, industry sources said. It has now been a year since the 125 MW Reliance Areva plant, Asia’s largest Concentrated Solar Power plant, went into operation at Dhursar, ...
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How solar is transforming an old mining town
You hike over the crest of the hill and there it is: 96 sun-tracking solar masts, each with 42 solar modules — 4,032 modules in all — perched on the side of a hill with the beautiful Rocky Mountains in the background. It’s called the SunMine project and it’s all part of the reinvention of Kimberley, B.C., from mining town to a clean tech, tourism town of the future. ...
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