WHERE THE SUN IS

Solar Resource Assessment Takes Sunlight To The Bank

Michael Puttre, July 11, 2013 (Solar Industry)

“…Some places are just sunnier than others. While the sunniness of a given region is pretty well established as a matter of popular lore, such assessments generally are not regarded as engineering-quality data…Thomas Stoffel, manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Resource Information and Forecasting Group in Golden, Colo., says successful solar power generation programs require scientific solar resource assessments. In particular, utility-scale projects that form the foundation of many national renewable energy policies around the world demand intense data collection and analysis over a period of years, if not decades…” click here for more

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