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Using Solar Resource Knowledge in practice

Results and products of the European Project MESoR

May 27^th 2009, at the Intersolar Trade Fair, Munich, Germany

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Background and content of the seminar

An efficient, cost effective and successful integration of solar energy in the existing energy structure requires a detailed knowledge of the solar resource. Knowledge of this resource has been generated over the past years within several European and national projects. As a result different sources of information and solar radiation products are now available, but uncertainty about their quality remains. At the same time, communities of users lack common understanding how to exploit the developed knowledge.

The project MESoR has developed tools to remove these uncertainties and to make the use of the solar energy resource knowledge easier. These tools include a best practice handbook, an internet portal providing an unified access to the data and a benchmarking of the currently available methods and datasets. During the seminar these tools will be presented and the participants will be instructed in their use.

Seminar Program

13:00 Introduction and Overview

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	MESoR Seminar Introduction	Carsten Hoyer-Klick	DLR

13:15 User's needs
An introduction to the requirements of different technologies and applications, regarding data quality, spatial and temporal resolution and accuracy is given. Feedback from the participants is welcomed.

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	User's Needs	Elena Gaboardi	iCons
	User's Needs (Technical Aspects)	Jethro Betcke	Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
	Simplified profit calculation for a photovoltaic system in Germany	Jethro Betcke	Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

14:00 Overview of solar resource products
The currently available products are presented. The background of the methods, their main properties and their costs are discussed.

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	Overview on Solar Resource Products	Elke Lorenz	Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

14:45 Results of the benchmarking of the solar resource products
Within the MESoR project the major solar resource products have been validated. The results and their impact on different applications will be discussed.

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	Benchmarking of radiation products	Hans Georg Bayer	Hochschule Magdebug-Stendal
	Independent global and beam validation on 21 ground data sets	Pierre Ineichen	University of Geneva – Energy Group

15:30 Coffee break

15:45 The MESoR Portal
The project partners have developed an internet portal that provides unified access to different on-line solar resource products. We will present the contents of the portal, and how it can be used.

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	Unifying Access	Lionel Menard	Mines Paristech / Armines

16:30 Example case studies
The application of solar radiance data is illustrated by means of some practical examples.

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	Example of use	Dominique Dumortier	ENTPE

17:15 Outlook and Discussion

	Document Title	Speaker	Institute/Company
	Outlook and discussion	Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt	DLR

18:00 End