Solar solutions
Solar weather monitoring systems
Turn-key solutions for integrated solar weather monitoring across the project lifecycle: from site assessment to monitoring plant efficiency and forecasting solar radiation.
Performance in solar energy
Accurate radiation data drives better solar returns
Accurately measuring and predicting solar radiation is key to finding optimal locations, informing investment decisions, optimising plant efficiency, monitoring performance and scheduling maintenance. Our solar radiation and weather monitoring systems are installed and operational at over 500 sites in India.
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Instruments
- Solar weather monitoring systems and software
- Kipp & Zonen radiation sensors (full range)
- Apogee radiation sensors and accessories
- RainWise all-in-one integrated stations for solar plants
- Met One / Climatronics meteorological sensors
- BKC data logger for solar sensors, certified by IMD
- Campbell Scientific data loggers and sensors
- Panel temperature sensors
- Meteorological towers, tripods, mounting accessories and cables
Software
- metGIS Solar: decision support for solar radiation forecasting
- Evaluating plant performance from incoming and forecast solar radiation
Services
- Support for instruments and software
- Solar resource assessment
- Correlation of ground measurements with satellite and model data
- PV module performance studies
Products
Solar monitoring products
BKC-AT60 data logger
- High-precision real-time clock
- Data storage up to 32 GB
- 3 × RS232, 20 analog and 8 digital channels
- Removable terminal block for easy wiring
SWMS: Solar Weather Monitoring System
- GHI, DIF, DNI and tilted global irradiance
- Wind speed and direction
- Temperature and relative humidity
- Module surface temperature
- Pressure and rainfall
- Solar forecasting and more
Panel & ambient temperature sensors
- BKC-MT RS485-MB
- PT1000 adhesive sensor
- Tm-RS485
- IMT Tm-Pt100, Tm-Pt1000, Tm-V-4090, Tm-RS485-MB
- BKC-AT RS485-MB ambient sensor
Kipp & Zonen solar radiation sensors
- Pyranometers
- Pyrgeometers
- Albedometers
- Pyrheliometers
- Net radiometers
- Sunshine duration sensors
- UV radiometers
- Large aperture scintillometers
Apogee sensors
- Solar PV monitoring
- Pyranometers
- Infrared radiometers
- Aspirated radiation shield
- Spectroradiometers
- Net radiometers and pyrgeometers
- Humidity and temperature probes
Met One / Climatronics sensors
- Wind sensors
- Temperature sensors and accessories
- Relative humidity
- Barometric pressure
- Dust monitors
- Precipitation
- Calibration equipment
- Data loggers
Lufft sensors
- Laser ceilometer
- Scintillometer
- Optical rain gauges
- Water level and water quality sensors
- All-in-one weather sensors
- Road weather
Soiling & dust monitors
Key milestones
Proven at India's largest solar plants
- Over 500 solar weather monitoring stations installed and commissioned across India since 2010.
- Complete solar weather monitoring station at India's largest solar plant in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (Dhanu Solar, 2012).
- Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station for CSIR (2013).
- Authorised vendor for solar and atmospheric science sensors to NTPC since 2013.
- Solar weather monitoring stations in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
Building a solar plant?
Get a solar weather monitoring system specified, installed and supported by one team.