6th training in solar radiation - 15-16-17-18-19 Jan. 2018 - Sophia antipolis, France

Last update: Jan. 2018

   

         The training is full!

NB: the program has been updated. Please take a look.

Address: MINES ParisTech, 1 rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia Antipolis. Organize your trip
Program: updated program - program in PDF format
Lunches and catering fee: Access prices. Please note that your participation is validated as soon as your payment is received.

NB: A room has been booked for breaks and catering, where you will have the opportunity to display posters or flyers for your company / your project / your product. Feel free to bring any dissemination tool.

Lunches and catering fee

Day Price Monday - optional 30 € Thuesday 60 € Wednesday 60 € Thursday 60 € Friday (master class) - optional 260 € (160 € for students)

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Teachers

• Pr. Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech
• Dr. Mathilde Marchand, Transvalor S.A.
• Pr. Thierry Ranchin, MINES ParisTech
• Dr. Yves-Marie Saint Drenan, MINES ParisTech
• Amaury Schoenaeur, CEPAC
• Dr. Claire Thomas, Transvalor S.A.
• Benoit Tournadre, MINES ParisTech
• Melodie Trolliet, MINES ParisTech
• Pr. Lucien Wald, MINES ParisTech
• Dr. Etienne Wey, Transvalor S.A.

Updated Program

Day 0 Monday 15^th January, 2018 (OPTIONAL)

14:00 – 14:30 Welcome coffee - Registration 14:30 – 16:30 Basics in solar radiation - Practical work : sun position Pr P. Blanc 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 – 18:00 Basics in GIS Pr T. Ranchin 18:00 Adjourn day

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Day 1 Tuesday 16^th January 2018

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome coffee - Registration 09:00 – 10:30 Presentation of MINES ParisTech and Transvalor - "Ice breaker" – 5 min introduction of posters of OIE PhD students – Presentation of the mind map that they will be able to fill all training long. All the teachers + PhD students + all the Participants 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break – poster session 11:00 – 12:00 Presentation of SoDa, CAMS services Dr Mathilde Marchand 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Site prospection – Atlas IRENA, Atlas PACA, Urban solar cadasters Dr Etienne Wey 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break – poster session 16:00 – 17:00 In-situ pyranometric measurements Pr Philippe Blanc 17:00 – 17:30 Using existing in-situ pyranometric measurements 17:30 – 18:00 Using existing measuring stations from a nearby network 18:00 Adjourn day

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Day 2 Wednesday 17^th January, 2018

09:00 – 10:00 Practical work: Analyze cases of measurement failures Lucien Wald, Philippe Blanc, Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan, Benoit Tournadre, Claire Thomas, Mathilde Marchand, Etienne Wey, Loic Vallance 10:00 – 10:30 Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 1 Pr Lucien Wald 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break – poster session 11:00 – 11:30 Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 2 Dr Claire Thomas 11:30 – 12:00 Limitations of satellite-based methods Dr Claire Thomas 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 SoDa, HelioClim and Heliosat-2, CAMS radiation and CAMS McClear services Dr Claire Thomas 15:00 – 15:30 Protocol for validating estimates of solar radiation from meteorological analyses or satellite images Pr Lucien Wald 15:30 – 16:00 Calibration of a long term satellite irradiation time series Dr Etienne Wey 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break – poster session 16:30 – 17:00 Analyze of long term solar resource – variability and representativeness (TMY) Pr Philippe Blanc 17:00 Adjourn day

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Day 3 Thursday 18^th January, 2018

09:00 – 10:00 Monitoring an installation with satellite irradiation data: the challenge to deal with high resolution spatial and temporal variability Pr Philippe Blanc 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break – poster session 10:30 – 11:30 Introduction to forecast methodologies Dr Yves-Marie Saint Drenan 11:30 – 12:15 Bank and projects financing – Questions and answers Amaury Schoenaeur 12:15 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Presentation of our innovations: who in the assistance would be interested in becoming a panel tester for each presented service ? Dr Claire Thomas 15:30 – 16:30 Round table: debriefing of the mind map: collect recommendations from attendees to improve the training. Distribution of questionnaires and feedback All the Participants 16:30 Adjourn day

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Day 4 Friday 19^th January, 2018 (optional) - Parallel practical work sessions

Dr Etienne Wey Pr Philippe Blanc 09:00 – 12:30 QGIS discovery and use Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge) 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 QGIS discovery and use Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge) 16:00 Adjourn day

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Organize your trip

  Hotels

Hotel Etoile (Antibes): Approx. 20 rooms are proposed to the attendees with a nice discount. Just tell the hotel that you plan to attend our solar training.

The price of the room is 55.10 € + 0.90 € (tourist tax) and for the breakfast is 7.5 €.  

Alternative hotels in Antibes: Hotel Modern, and Le Relais du Postillon

Hotels nearby MINES ParisTech: Hotel Omega, Hotel IBIS, Hotel Mercure, Sophia Country Club

  Buses

• from Nice Airport to Sophia "Express": bus 230, 1.50 €. Bus stops are "Terminal 1 Nice airport (passage de la Caravelle, check the illustration on our contact page)" in Nice and "Place Sophie Lafitte" in Sophia Antipolis.
• from Nice Airport to Antibes "Express": bus 250, 10 € one way and 15 € round trip. From "Terminal 1" to Antibes.
• from Nice Airport to Antibes ("slow bus" :) ): bus 200, 1.50 € (price Sep. 2017). Bus stops are "Terminal 1 Nice airport (passage de la Caravelle)" in Nice and "Place du Général de Gaulle" in Antibes. Be careful, this bus is slow and stops everywhere.
• from Antibes to MINES ParisTech Sophia: bus 1 or 100, 1.50 € (price Sept. 2017).