Solar Atlas for the Mediterranean - Stakeholder Workshop Cairo 1 November 2011

1. Solar Atlas for the
Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
Carsten Hoyer-Klick
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics,
Department of Systems Analysis and Technology Assessment
Lucien Wald, Lionel Menard, Philippe Blanc, Etienne Wey, Marcel Suri, Tomas Cebecauer, Thomas Huld,
Houda Allal, Amel Bida, Maged Mahmoud, Ludger Lorych, Daniel Puig, Marcel Caner, Marion
Schroedter-homscheidt, Christoph Schillings, Thomas Wanderer
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2. Motivation www.solar-med-atlas.org
Solar radiation is the fuel of solar energy. Knowledge about its
availability is crucial for the successful development of
Solar energy policies
Solar energy investments
The knowledge on the solar resource is very uncertain in the Southern
and Eastern Mediterranean
Information on resources and potentials is essential to trigger
developments
Good Basic solar radiation information should be a public good (common
investment for everybody’s profit, as e.g. infrastructures).
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3. Getting Renewable Energy to Work www.solar-med-atlas.org
Technology data
and learning
Available
Resources Resource mapping Socio-economic
Which and policy data
Political + Economic Framework
technologies Technical and
are feasible? economical Potentials
Setting the right
How can RE Technology
contribute to the deployment scenarios Best practices
energy system?
How to get them into the
Strategies for
market? Where to start? market development
Legislation, incentives Political and
financial Instruments
Investments
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4. Project Development for www.solar-med-atlas.org
Renewable Energy Systems
Pre feasibility
Finding suitable
no market
Resources
few data
(Atlas) sites with high
resolution maps
Feasibility
Project development and economic
evaluations
Engineering
1200
Resources
ground
1000
Detailed
satellite
800
W/m²
600
400
(time series)
200
0
engineering
existing commerical market
13 14 15 16 17 18
day in march, 2001
data and services available
with site
Engineering specific data
with high
Construction temporal
resolution as
input to
Commissioning
simulation
software
Operation
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5. Current Status of Resource Information www.solar-med-atlas.org
Coarse public data sets of unknown quality
Reanalysis data
NASA SEE (100 km)
PVGIS (only global horizontal radiation)
Few regional assessments
Often by interpolation of ground measurements
Only global horizontal radiation
Sometimes hard to access (e.g. only color maps in printed
presentations)
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6. Objectives of the Solar-Med-Atlas www.solar-med-atlas.org
Improve the resource data base by
High resolution solar radiation mapping (GHI + DNI)
based on satellite images
Use of open and transparent state of the art algorithms
Transparent validation of the data base
Free access to monthly values
Improve access by
Open system architecture based on internet standards
Easy to use web interface
Downloadable data (monthly time series and maps)
Web applications for data analysis
Linking ancillary information (Socio-Economic, GIS data)
Improve the knowledge data base for solar energy policy making and
investments
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7. Project Consortium www.solar-med-atlas.org
German Aerospace Center,
Institute of Technical
Thermodynamics, GeoModel Solar
Department of Systems-
Analysis and Technology
Assessment (Coordinator)
German Remote Sensing United Nations
Data Center Environmental Programme,
Division of Technology,
Armines / Mines-ParisTech, Industry and Economics
Centre Énergétique et
Procédés
OME, Observatoire
Méditerranéen de l’Energie
Transvalor
RCREEE Regional Center
European Commission, for Renewable Energy and
Joint Research Center Energy Efficiency
Ispra, Institute for Energy,
Renewable Energy Unit
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8. Analyzed Region www.solar-med-atlas.org
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9. Possible Target Groups www.solar-med-atlas.org
Policy makers, public agencies and governments
Industry and investors
NGO’s and academic institutes
The general public
Grid operators and utilities
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10. Networking with Collaborative www.solar-med-atlas.org
Information Systems
Solar
resources
data
A (e.g. DLR)
provider
Data
broker Solar
data resources
B (e.g.
user interface provider
Mines-ParisTech)
data geographical data, land use,
data infrastructure,
provider provider e.g. public agencies
Communication with open
and standardized internet
protocols Policy data base set up of the architecture within
e.g. IEA, UNEP, REN21 the framework of GEOSS
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11. Solar-Med-Atlas Infrastructure www.solar-med-atlas.org
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12. User Interface Google API: www.solar-med-atlas.org
Easy to use
Information
tabs,
applications
Site selection,
read average
values
Basic socio
economic
information
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13. More Services to Come www.solar-med-atlas.org
Solar radiation on inclined planes
Site evaluation and ranking (eventually)
Assessment of technical potentials
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14. User interface sample – www.solar-med-atlas.org
Potential assessments
Technical Potential - Spain
800
Electricity Potential [TWh/y]
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
> 0
00
0
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
28
DNI [kWh/m²a]
Technical Potential: 1646 TWh/y (DNI > 1800 kWh/m²/y)
Economic Potential: 1278 TWh/y (DNI > 2000 kWh/m²/y)
Power Demand 2000: 213 TWh/y
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15. User Feedback www.solar-med-atlas.org
We want to develop a web portal for the help of policy planers and
investors in the target region
To improve the portal to your needs, we need your feedback!
User workshops:
ISES Solar World, you are here
Nov. 1st, just before the Desertec Conference in Cairo
Website: www.solar-med-atlas.com
User Questionnaire available at the website!
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16. Questions www.solar-med-atlas.org
Your profession
Type of solar technology?
Which type of solar technology are you working with: PV, solar water
heating, concentrating solar power, solar buildings or something else?
What are typical sizes of the systems you are interested in kW or MW or
m².
Which parameters of solar radiation data do you need?
Please describe shortly which parameters you use for your work: Global
horizontal radiation, Direct normal radiation, clear sky days, sunshine
hours, or similar. Which resolution do you use or would like to use: hourly
data, daily, monthly or annual values. Do you need any ancillary data as
temperature, wind speed, pressure, humidity, or similar. Which
parameters do you need?
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17. Questions II www.solar-med-atlas.org
Which features do you need?
When you look at the portal for the “Solar Atlas for the Mediterranean” at
http://www.solar-med-atlas.com which features do you like most or are
the most beneficial to you? Do you miss any feature or do you have any
ideas for new features and web applications which would help to improve
your work. Do you know features from other portals which you like and
should be included in this Atlas?
Which languages do you need?
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18. Questions III www.solar-med-atlas.org
Which data formats do you need?
Which software do you use for your further analysis, e.g. for technical
and economic simulations and analysis. What type of data format would
you prefer: Plain ASCII, typical Spreadsheet formats as Microsoft Excel?
Do you need maps, if yes, which formats would you prefer: jpg-images,
nedcdf, shape-files, geoTIFF or anything else?
Which are useful web-applications for your work?
Which are useful applications for further processing of the data on the
portal, e.g. conversion to any kind of tilted surface, or similar?
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19. Thank you ! www.solar-med-atlas.org
Questions and Feedback
Carsten.Hoyer-Klick@dlr.de
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