Product Description
A webinar aimed to designate the potential role of solar energy resource and forecasting in solar farms’ efficient planning and operation.
The participants will be able to understand the basics about solar resource and forecasting as well as the benefits of Earth Observation systems to the solar energy sector. State-of-the-art solar energy forecasting tools from European to municipality scale will be presented for selected cases.
The webinar is mainly non-technical and targets planners on regional/city/municipal scale as well professionals with no extensive experience in solar energy.
Learning outcomes
Learn the concepts of Energy Meteorology and discuss what it offers to the solar sector.
Recognize the main atmospheric and solar-related parameters that contribute to the efficient use of PV and CSP systems.
Learn the basic principles of solar forecasting.
Discuss about Earth observations for solar nowcasting and forecasting.
Identify the use of solar energy tools for urban scale applications.
Learn about PV nowcasting and short-term forecasting in urban scale.
BoK concepts
Links to concepts from the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge used in this course:
- [AM10] Data mining
- [AM8]Geostatistics
- [CV1] History and trends
- [CV2] Data considerations
- [CV5] Map production
- [CV6] Usability
- [IP2] Data assimilation
- [PP1-5] Basic of Optics and Modern Physics of Sensors
- [PP1-6] Basics of Atmospheric Physics
- [PS1] Remote Sensing Sensors
- [PS2] Remote Sensing Platforms and Systems
- [PS3] Remote Sensing data and imagery
- [TA1] Atmosphere Monitoring
- [TA2] Climate Change Monitoring
Webinar recording
Ownership
The workshop is organised by UPAT in collaboration with the e-shape project, in the framework of the EO4GEO project.
Education level
EQF 6 (what is this?)
Language
English
Creation date
November 9th, 2021
Access
+ | The material hosted in our e-learning platform consists of a video recording (1:20) and a slideset.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
