scholarly journals Renewable Energy Resource Assessment: New Jersey Winds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy Hill ◽  
Ryan McDevitt ◽  
Peter Mark Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Renewable Energy Resource

Southern Nevada Renewable Resource Assessment

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Gray ◽  
Aaron Sahm ◽  
Marc Newmarker ◽  
Rick Hurt ◽  
Robert Boehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
National Renewable Energy Laboratory ◽  
Renewable Energy Resource ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Direct Normal Irradiance ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
Energy Center

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Renewable Energy Center (UNLV-REC) currently monitors three meteorological stations in southern Nevada under the direction of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is funded by the Nevada Southwest Energy Partnership (NSWEP). The three station locations are Eldorado Valley, UNLV-REC Solar Site, and Nevada Power Company Clark Station. The installation dates for each of the locations were October of 2004 for Eldorado Valley station, August of 2003 for the UNLV-REC Solar Site, and March of 2006 for the Nevada Power Clark Station. Publicly available data from each site have been archived since installation completion. This paper discusses the installation of the equipment for each site and images of the setup. The data that is being collected between the sites is also compared. Data comparisons between the sites include net monthly solar energy; monthly peak direct normal irradiance (DNI), average daily wind speed, monthly wind roses, and average monthly dry bulb temperatures. The recently measured data is also compared to resource maps developed by NREL and to TMY data. With these meteorological resources, microclimatic variations can be studied for the area and used as a renewable energy resource for renewable installations in southern Nevada.

scholarly journals Renewable Energy Resource Assessment

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
Sven Teske ◽  
Kriti Nagrath ◽  
Tom Morris ◽  
Kate Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Renewable Energy Resource

scholarly journals Using open software to teach resource assessment of solar thermal and geothermal energy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Ulazia ◽  
Aitor Urresti ◽  
Alvaro Campos ◽  
Gabriel Ibarra-Berastegi ◽  
Mirari Antxustegi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Geothermal Resources ◽  
Life Problems

The students of the Faculties of Engineering of the Universitty of Basque Country (Gipuzkoa-Eibar and Bilbao) in the last years of their studies, before becoming engineers, have the opportunity to select a block of subjects intended to enhance their knowledge on renewable energy systems. One of these subjects is Solar Thermal and Geothermal energy. These subjects are devoted to assessing the renewable energy resource, and designing optimal systems. Apart from the transmission of good practices, the focus is practical and is based on hands-on computer real-life exercises, which involves not only intensive programming using high-level software, but also the spatial representation of results. To that purpose two main open source codes are used: Octave (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), and QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/). Students learn how to address real-life problems regarding the geographical representation of solar radiation and low temperature geothermal resources using QGIS, and solar thermal system modelling using Octave.

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