Solar irradiance data from Nevada Power's Clark Station, Las Vegas, Nevada

Description

A partnership with the University of Nevada and U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to collect solar data to support future solar power generation in the United States. The measurement station monitors global horizontal, direct normal, and diffuse horizontal irradiance to define the amount of solar energy that hits this particular location. The solar measurement instrumentation is also accompanied by meteorological monitoring equipment to provide scientists with a complete picture of the solar power possibilities.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Resource bibliography on SciTech Connect DOI 10.7799/1052547 http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1052547
21 Datasets available including "Live" graphical display, updated every 60 minutes. (No longer available) "Live" data and plots, updated every 60 minutes. (No longer available) Daily plots and raw data files, are available from March 27, 2006 to March 3, 2015. Solar Calendars, are available from March 2006 to March 2015. Wind roses (monthly, seasonal, & yearly) are available from April 2006 to February 2015. Pictures of instrumentation and collectors at NPCS site. DOI 10.7799/1052547 http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1052547

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  • las-vegas
  • humidity
  • precipitation
  • outdoor
  • direct
  • instrumentation
  • midc
  • thermopile
  • weather
  • solar
  • meterological
  • global
  • irradiance
  • tracker
  • pressure
  • re
  • renewable-energy
  • wind
  • clark-station
  • solar-calendar
  • diffuse
  • measurement
  • radiometer
  • pyrheliometer
  • temperature
  • pyranometer
  • nevada
  • display
  • wind-rose

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