Featured in China's strength – 05-2014

Accurate measurements

PV performance monitoring: Ruud Ringoir, Product Manager at Kipp & Zonen, based in Delft, the Netherlands, explains the details and the advantages of using pyranometers and pyrheliometers to obtain accurate and independent solar radiation data.

Monitoring a solar power plant is a complex process with many stages, from solar energy input to electrical power output. For all these stages separate sensors and associated software are available to monitor the whole process. The importance of monitoring the available input from the sun is often underestimated, or thought of as less relevant, …

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