The photovoltaics industry is regarded as one of the fastest-growing sectors in renewable energy. With advancing technological innovations, emerging trends blending how to use PV sites (AgroPV as an example), continual learning is critical for our customers and partners.
That’s why our team has compiled key solar PV webinars developed by our internal experts. These webinars provide critical insights to ensure you are maximizing the measurement and monitoring technology on your PV site.
Whether you are looking to refresh your knowledge on environmental monitoring for solar PV, or are actively seeking alternative solutions to your current measurement and monitoring solutions, the below webinars provide takeaways relevant at all stages of your PV project.
Webinar: Optimizing Your Pyranometer Performance
This webinar, developed using our Kipp & Zonen line of ISO 9060:2018 Class C, Class B, and Class A pyranometers, provides best practices to optimize the overall performance of installed pyranometers on PV sites.
From installation, maintenance, and calibration requirements, our team of PV experts provide valuable insights of specific value to O&M companies during this webinar.
Expected Learnings
Throughout the Solar PV Webinar: Optimizing Pyranometer Performance, you’ll walkthrough:
- The ISO 9060:2018 industry classification for pyranometers.
- The importance of data accuracy from sensors measuring global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and plane of array irradiance (POA).
- Best practices for how to mount your pyranometers.
- How to connect your pyranometers and the type of signal outputs.
- Recommended maintenance and calibration for your irradiance sensors.
- Running site confidence checks for your pyranometers.
Webinar: Measuring DNI, DHI, and GHI on PV Sites
Led by our internal radiation expert, this webinar delves into granular detail on what solar radiation is, what makes up solar radiation, and how best to accurately capture and measure solar radiation.
For this webinar, our team used the Kipp & Zonen SOLYS2, SOLYS Gear Drive, and RaZON+ sun trackers as reference points. An introductory overview of these sun trackers is also provided along with best use cases for optimal readings.
Expected Learnings
This solar PV webinar is of particular benefit if you’re interested in best practices and varying models to make up a complete solar monitoring station. You’ll also get an expert overview on:
- What is solar radiation and its main components (direct, diffuse, global).
- The value and importance of measuring direct, diffuse, and global solar radiation.
- Best practices for measuring solar radiation across your PV site.
- A breakdown of the Kipp & Zonen Precision Automatic Sun Trackers.
- How to make up a complete solar monitoring station.
Webinar: Leveraging Smart Weather Sensors on PV Sites
This Solar PV webinar brings to focus our Lufft line of meteorological sensor technology. Today, measuring the meteorological parameters on your PV site is critical for understanding the variables that could be impacting output and creating fluctuations in plant performance.
This webinar is useful for those interested in PV site monitoring and for those curious about smart weather sensors and how you can leverage this technology for plant optimization.
Expected Learnings
Looking to achieve a new performance benchmark for your solar PV plant? If so, this webinar will showcase how measuring temperature, wind, humidity, and other weather parameters can get you to that next stage in performance.
During this webinar you’ll gain an understanding of:
- The meteorological measurements most important for PV monitoring.
- How performance ratio on a utility-scale PV site is affected by certain weather parameters.
- Lufft’s modular concept for their Smart Weather Sensor series.
- Best practices for using and optimizing weather and environmental sensors on your PV site using on-site examples.
Conclusion
We hope these webinars for solar PV are able to provide you with new insights and best practices to support your solar performance goals.
From solar radiation, to pyranometer optimization, and monitoring weather parameters, these on-demand webinars provide useful knowledge applicable at any stage of your plant’s lifecycle.
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Interested in learning more about professional environmental monitoring for solar PV plants? Reach out to our team of technology and industry experts and find out how you can get more out of your PV panels.
