SOLEA URBAN is a UNIX powered software program which simulates the three-dimensional ray tracing and shadow casting for rooftop solar photovoltaic energy estimations in real-time. It exploits an advanced processing architecture based on cloud supercomputing, graphic creation platforms, fast radiative transfer modelling and Earth Observation...
What is nextSense? The Solar Energy nowcasting and short-term forecasting system (NextSense) combines fast radiative transfer modelling and cloud motion vectors in order to forecast the spectrum of the downwelling surface solar irradiation (DSSI). Real-time cloud and aerosol optical properties from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and...
Technical details: The user through the fully dynamical interface is able to navigate, zoom and click at any pixel of the 1.5 million matrix (the spatial resolution is 3 km at nadir) retrieving solar energy potential information for 3 hours ahead and 3 hours back time...
This service has been implemented in the framework of Solar Energy Nowcasting SystEm (SENSE) pilot of the GEO-CRADLE project. The initial solar radiation database was retrieved by the EUMETSAT’s CM SAF for the regions of Greece, Egypt and Cyprus. ...
This website was developed in the framework of the GEO-CRADLE project under the grant agreement No 690133 (HORIZON 2020). The objective of this website is the operational application of the Solar Energy Nowcasting SystEm for the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy together...
The mean monthly solar energy maps of Greece are based on a 15-year climatology of the Direct Normal and Global Horizontal Irradiances (DNI and GHI respectively), while the spatial resolution is almost 5 km. The climatological radiation data are from the EUMETSAT’s Satellite Application Facility...
Publications in journals Kosmopoulos, P.G., Kazadzis, S., Lagouvardos, K., Kotroni, V., and Bais A.: Solar Energy prediction and verification using operational model forecasts and ground-based solar measurements. Energy, 93, 1918-1930, 2015. Taylor, M., Kosmopoulos, P.G., Kazadzis, S., Keramitsoglou, I., and Kiranoudis, C.T.: Neural network radiative transfer solvers...
We established closer collaboration and extension of cooperation with the New and Renewable Energy Authority of Egypt (NREA) and the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy by developing a common website running on the official ministry website, in which we disseminate the real-time and climatological...
In the framework of TREASURE project, SOLEA developed a UV-index algorithm (for the technical background click here and here) in support to the provided nowcasting services. For more information about TREASURE visit the official website. ...
Development of an analytical business plan for establishment, operation and exploitation of a solar farm in Aswan (Egypt) in support to the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation. This work was implemented in collaboration with Evenflow. https://youtu.be/frC1D-XRgLQ...