8TH TRAINING IN SOLAR RADIATION - 20 TO 24 JAN. 2020 - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE | Last update: Jan. 2020 |
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Program - Price - Organize your trip - Accommodation and transport
Contact Dr Mathilde Marchand via our mailing list support-sales-at-soda-is.com to save your seat!
Address: MINES ParisTech, 1 rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia Antipolis. Organize your trip
Program
The main courses of the program are:
- science and techniques related to surface solar radiation
- ground sensors, satellite imagery and numerical meteorological models
- solar mapping at different spatial scales (worldwide to urban scales)
- long term solar resources
- solar variability and forecast
- solar potential mapping with Quantum GIS
- advanced solar data processing with Python
Training language: English
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Basics in solar radiation - Practical work : sun position | | 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break | | 16:30 – 17:30 | Basics in GIS | |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee - Registration | | 09:00 – 10:30 | - Presentation of MINES ParisTech and Transvalor
- Presentation of PVPS task 16 (international experts network for solar resource and forecast: www.iea-pvps.org)
- Introduction of posters of OIE PhD students
| | 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Presentation of the SoDa service | | 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:30 | Site prospection using existing atlases (IRENA, PACA, Urban solar cadasters…) | | 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 16:00 – 17:00 | In-situ measurements | | 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 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Practical work: Analyze cases of measurement failures | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 11:30 | Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses | | 11:30 – 12:00 | Supplementing ground data with satellite data – Introduction | | 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | | 13:00 – 13:30 | Limitations of satellite-based methods | | 13:30 – 14:30 | SoDa, HelioClim and Heliosat-2, CAMS radiation and CAMS McClear services | | 14:30 – 15:00 | Validation | | 15:00 – 15:30 | Calibration of a long term satellite irradiation time series | | 15:30 | Adjourn day | |
Dinner at Antibes
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Analyze of long term solar resource – variability and representativeness (TMY) | | 09:45 – 10:45 | Monitoring an installation with satellite irradiation data: the challenge to deal with high resolution spatial and temporal variability | | 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Introduction to forecast methodologies | | 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 16:30 | New project: New services SoDa: - Solar forecasting
- Spectral
| | 16:30 – 16:45 | Wrap-up | | 16:45 | Adjourn day | |
| 09:00 – 12:30 | Parallel practical work sessions - QGIS discovery and use for solar potential mapping
- Jupyter Notebook for solar processing (prerequisite: Python knowledge)
| | 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 16:00 | Parallel practical work sessions - QGIS discovery and use for solar potential mapping
- Jupyter Notebook for solar processing (prerequisite: Python knowledge)
| | 16:00 | Adjourn day | |
Price
| Monday (optional) | 20.00 € |
| Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday | 60.00 € per day (180.00 € for three days) |
| Friday (optional) | 300.00 € for companies and 200.00 € for student |
Accommodation and transport
The rooms are specialy reserved for your stay in partnership with the solar training. The price of the room is 55.10 €, tourist tax is 0.90 € per day and per person and the breakfast price is 7.5 €.
For the transport between this accommodation and the solar training facilities in MINES ParisTech, the bus is recommended as there is a direct line:
Bus line 1 envibus with bus stop DUGOMMIER for the Hotel and S. LAFFITE for the MINES ParisTech
