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News 18.11.2013: PVGIS updated to use Google Maps version3. Click here to read about it. 11.02.2013: New updated version of PVGIS. 11.02.2013: L'interface web PVGIS est maintenant disponible en français. 11.02.2013: La interfaz web PVGIS está ahora disponible en español. 21.09.2012: New versions of downloadable maps for Europe and European countries, using the new PVGIS-CMSAF data where available. 16.02.2012: Geographical coverage of PVGIS-CMSAF extended to 50° E and to 35° S to cover all of Africa. 11.02.2011: Important Bug fix! 20.10.2010: Bug fixes and small improvements. 20.09.2010: A new version of the PVGIS interactive web applications is now ready: PVGIS-4. We have added a number of new features, and we have done our best to test them to make sure they work properly.

Global Solar Radiation Database - Maps Energy Self Reliant States The following presentation was given by ILSR’s Director of Democratic Energy John Farrell at the Electrons on the Run mini-conference in Alexandria, MN, on March 12, 2014. The presentation illustrates how distributed renewable energy in the 21st century fits the rural electric utility philosophy of self-reliance and local economic development, just as providing local electricity… Continue reading Two weeks ago, Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission ratified the first-ever statewide policy for setting a fair and transparent price on solar energy. In March 2014, Minnesota became the first state to adopt a “value of solar” policy. A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund (and others) touts how city energy aggregation is “unleashing” renewable energy in Illinois. Community choice aggregation describes a situation where a town can become the bulk buyer of electricity on behalf of its residential and small business customers.

Accueil - Guide du Photovoltaïque CDM Rulebook - Home Institut für Technische Thermodynamik - Global Concentrating Solar Power Potentials Contact: Dr. Franz Trieb, Carsten Hoyer-Klick, Dr. Christoph Schillings The analysis of the technical potential of concentrating solar power (CSP) on a global scale was elaborated within the European project REACCESS. It is based on annual direct normal irradiation (DNI) data provided by NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy program (SSE) Version 6.0. The solar resource data has been uploaded to a geographic information system and processed together with spatial data on land use, topography, hydrology, geomorphology, infrastructure, protected areas etc. excluding sites that are not technically feasible for the construction of concentrating solar power plants. This map has been analyzed statistically using a simple CSP performance model that takes contemporary parabolic trough technology as reference to determine the potential of solar electricity generation for different classes of annual DNI intensity ranging from 2000 to 2800 kWh/m²/y. The paper can be downloaded here.

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