Foreword ...................................................... vii
Part I Solar Data Resources and Methods Presently
Available ............................................ 1
Chapter 1 Emerging Opportunities for Improved Solar Resource
Information .......................................... 3
Richard Perez
Chapter 2 Use of Satellite Images to Produce Solar Radiation
and Daylight Information: Experience from Three
European Projects ................................... 11
Dominique Dumortier
Chapter 3 Available Databases, Products and Services .......... 29
Lucien Wald
Part II Current Research and Expected Products .............. 43
Chapter 4 Climate Statistics for Planning and Siting of
Solar Electricity Systems: Typical Years ............ 45
Jan Remund
Chapter 5 Climate Statistics for Planning and Siting of
Solar Energy Systems: Long-Term Variability of
Solar Radiation Derived rom Satellite Data .......... 55
Richard Meyer, Sina Lohmann, Christoph
Schillings and Carsten Hoyer
Chapter 6 Monitoring of Photovoltaic Systems in Large Scale -
The Project PVSAT-2 ................................. 69
Hans Georg Beyer, Elke Lorenz, Jethro Betcke,
Anja Drews, Detlev Heinemann, Corry de Keizer,
Wilfried van Sark, Sandra Feige, Stefan
Bofinger, Martin Schneider, Gerd Heilscher,
Sandra Stettler, Peter Toggweiler, Edo Wiemken
and Wolfgang Heydenreich
Chapter 7 Forecasting of Solar Radiation ...................... 83
Detlev Heinemann, Elke Lorenz and Marco Girodo
Part III Role and Needs of the Energy Service Providers ...... 95
Chapter 8 Data and Derived Products Needed by Companies ....... 97
Daniel Mugnier
Chapter 9 Role and Needs of Energy Service Providers with
Focus on Solar Energy Applications ................. 103
Gerd Heilscher, Martin Schneider and
Stefan Bofinger
Chapter 10 The ESA - ENVISOLAR Project: Experience on
the Commercial Use of Earth Observation Based
Solar Surface Irradiance Measurements for Energy
Business Purposes .................................. 111
Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, Catherine
Delamare, Gerd Heilscher, Detlev Heinemann,
Carsten Hoyer, Richard Meyer, Peter
Toggweiler, Lucien Wald and Antoine Zelenka
Chapter 11 The SWERA Project: Lessons Learned from
Developing Countries ............................... 125
Mark Radka and Tom Hamlin
Part IV First Steps in Management of Distributed Energy
Structures ......................................... 133
Chapter 12 Geographical Aspects of Solar Electricity
Generation in Europe ............................... 135
Marcel Šúri, Ewan D. Dunlop, Thomas A. Huld and
Heinz A. Ossenbrink
Chapter 13 Grid Integration of Solar Energy and Optimizing
the Energy Mix of Tomorrow ......................... 161
Carsten Hoyer, Stefan Kronshage, Joachim
Nitsch, Franz Trieb, Christoph Schillings and
Wolfram Krewitt
Part V Perspectives of Energy Issues in the Current
Earth-Observation Programs ......................... 173
Chapter 14 Space Technology for Renewable Energies ............ 175
Pierre-Philippe Mathieu
Chapter 15 GMES and the Solar Energy Issue .................... 181
Marek Banaszkiewicz, Francesco Pignatelli and
Alan Belward
Summary ....................................................... 191
Index ......................................................... 197
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