Solar Resource Nowcasting

Prof. Jan Kleissl researches the interaction of weather with engineering systems, in particular buildings energy use and solar power systems. Kleissl is an expert on solar resource assessment and forecasting and is co-director of the UCSD Center for Energy Research and Chair of the American Solar Energy Society resource applications division. Kleissl's solar variability models, sky imager solar forecasting tools, and numerical weather prediction solar forecasts have been commercialized or used operationally to advance solar power integration.” Kleissl received an undergraduate engineering degree from the University of Stuttgart and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, both in environmental engineering. Webinar presentation: Sky Imager Solar Forecasting for Distribution System Operation.

Dr. Kristian Pagh Nielsen has worked with meteorology, radiative transfer and spectroscopy for more than 15 years. He received the Norwegian Dr. scient. degree in Physics from the University of Bergen in 2005. He now works as a meteorologist at the Danish Meteorological Institute focusing on numerical weather prediction and solar resource assessment. Webinar presentation: Beyond TMYs, meteorological data for solar energy system simulations

Prof. Philippe Blanc is the head of the research group involved in renewable energy resource assessment within the research center Observation, Impacts, Energy for MINES ParisTech (www.oie.mines-paristech.fr). He is working on the modeling of solar radiation and its assessment from in situ measurements or/and satellite images. His background is related to signal and image processing, data analysis and applied mathematics. He is currently a leader of the sub-task 'advanced solar modeling' of the Task 46 ‘Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting’ for the Solar Heating & Cooling program of the International Energy Agency. Webinar presentation: Nowcasting of high resolution DNI maps with multiple fish-eye cameras in stereoscopic mode - Preliminary results of the FP7 EU project DNICast

Dr. David Renné President of the International Solar Energy Society since 2010 and Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal in the field of solar resource assessment, Dr. Renné is also the Operating Agent of International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme Task 46 titled, “Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting.” From 1991-2012, Dr. Renné developed and managed programs on renewable energy resource assessment and analysis, and the integration of resource data into GIS at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In his retirement, he holds an Emeritus position at NREL and Dave Renné Renewables provides support to both the public and private sector in planning and developing domestic and international renewable energy programs.