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Class A Pyranometers: Choosing the Right Type for Your PV Plant
To ensure top performance of solar PV installations, leading irradiance measurement instrumentation is required for both site assessment and resource monitoring. The quality of pyranometers and pyrheliometers is defined by the international standard ...
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Tracking the Sun’s Path for the World’s Largest Solar Concentrator
In early 2023, the world’s largest and most efficient solar concentrator was installed in Western India to power a hospital and research center. The impressive construction will produce steam for multiple applications as well as electricity ...
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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 ...
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Questions & Answers: Discovering the New SMP12 Class A Pyranometer
Solar demand is surging. Modern PV plants need fast responding precise solutions that are easy to install and integrate, ones that will last. Our new pyranometer, the Kipp & Zonen SMP12 can help you achieve this. On this page, we present our ...
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Solar Energy Insights: Soiling, ISO 9060:2018, Floatovoltaics, and more
Voilà, here is the third issue of OTT HydroMet Insights! This time, we take a detailed look at the solar energy landscape, international standards, new applications and technologies. Around the world, the demand for renewable energy is ...
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Building an Effective Meteorological Station for Solar PV
Weather conditions have a huge influence on photovoltaic output. Even intermittent cloud cover can have a dramatic effect on incident solar energy, while other factors like air temperature, wind direction and speed, precipitation, humidity and air ...
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Large PV Monitoring Projects in Brazil and Australia - Case Study
BIOSAR is a full EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) contractor offering integrated solutions in the areas of design, supply, construction, operation and maintenance of medium and large-scale PV systems all around the world. Their ...
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The future of Solar Power
When you think of renewable energies, what do you think of? Hydro power? Wind energy? In fact, they have proven to be the most popular in recent years. Hydro power in its current form is the cheapest of the renewable energies. Wind power is the ...
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Energy revolution: This is how intelligent technology supports upheaval
It is no longer a secret that fossil fuels such as hard coal and lignite are harmful to the environment. Germany would like to become greener and continue to rely on renewable energies as a result of the energy revolution. Intelligent technology in ...
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Don’t Miss: One of India’s Most Important Trade Shows for Renewable Energies
India is currently implementing the world`s largest renewable energy program under the leadership of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). Therefore, the 11th edition of Renewable Energy India Expo is one of the most important events for national ...
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Lufft Partner supplied solar park in Egypt
Following the successful commissioning of a 64.1 MW Benban solar power plant in Egypt in December 2017, system integrator Gantner Instruments Environment Solutions GmbH announced that it will equip three more plants of the Benban complex with a ...
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Smart sustainability: Saving energy and protecting the environment
In modern times, sustainability is a trend-setting keyword that is becoming increasingly important in society. In the economy, for example, this is an important criterion for the future development of humanity, taking into account the environment. ...
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Inauguration of an innovative foldable solar roof in Switzerland
Since September 7, 2017, an innovative solar roof of the public utility “IBC Energie Wasser Chur” has supplied the municipal sewage treatment plant with renewable energy. HORIZON is a movable light weight construction system which ...
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Powerful Tools to Accurately Forecast Solar Plant Yield
The Solar-Log® brand started 12 years ago with a homeowner’s vision to know how his solar PV plant was performing. Since then, installers across the globe have relied on Solar-Log® more than any other independent software vendor on the ...
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Wind energy in Norway - Icing of wind sensors? Not with the ultrasonic wind sensor VENTUS! - Case Study
Renewable energy in Norway is getting more and more important! The government has spent the goal that the use of renewable energy should increase strongly over the next years. Wind power plays a major role in this endeavor. Norway is climatically ...
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Smart solar monitoring / PV monitoring with smart weather sensors - Case Study
When selecting a suitable pyranometer for photovoltaic monitoring the company Solare Datensysteme GmbH decided for the Lufft WS501-UMB All-in-one weather station. According to the company the Pyranometer delivers the most precise measurements for ...
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Ultrasonic wind sensor for smart wind turbine control - Polaris / USA - Case Study
The American wind turbine manufacturer Polaris trusts for their wind turbine applications anemometers from Lufft. Over 50 wind turbines have already been equipped with our ultrasonic anemometers Ventus-UMB and V200A-UMB. Crucial in these ...
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Energy-saving in the holiday paradise: The Constance Hotels and Resorts rely on WS504 - Case Study
The Constance Hotels & Resorts have sites in Mauritius, in the Seychelles and the Maldives. There, the operators mounted automatic weather stations including the weather sensor WS504 and the precipitation meter WTB100 from Lufft for a special ...
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7th Largest wind farm replaces mechanical for Ventus ultrasonic sensors - Case Study
296 turbines of the AES Corporation are located by Buffalo Gap, Texas, US. With a capacity of 524 MW it`s the world`s seventh largest wind farm to-date. The article link below provides a summary of how Performance Engineer at AES, Tristan Lee, ...
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Simultaneously keep an eye on 10 Solar Performance Factors
Many environmental factors influence the performance of solar plants. The new whitepaper explains why it is important to monitor these factors and gives valuable tips on how to choose the right weather sensor. Free Whitepaper about the ...
