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Bratislava, Slovakia, February 9, 2012

GeoModel Solar Releases Most Detailed Solar Resource Maps for South Africa

GeoModel Solar, a leading international provider of solar resource data, online site assessment tools, and expert consultancy, today released a new set of solar maps for South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The abundant global and direct solar radiation is now mapped in the best possible quality, which will support the development of photovoltaic and concentrated solar energy in the country.
"Uniqueness of these maps is reflected in their very high spatial resolution of 250 metres. As regards temporal resolution, the underlying solar database represents more than 18 years of historical data (1994 - to present) with a time step of up to 15 minutes", said Marcel Suri, Managing Director of GeoModel Solar.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE, 17 Jan 2012

GeoModel Solar Launches New Generation Online Tools
for Solar Site Prospecting and Bankable Photovoltaic Yield Assessment

GeoModel Solar, a leading international provider of solar resource data, innovative photovoltaic simulation tools and expert consultancy, launched, at the occasion of World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, a new generation solar software - iMaps and pvPlanner - delivering new industry standards.
iMaps and pvPlanner as a part of SolarGIS online system integrate the best-available solar resource database, covering continuous history of 17 years, with the latest scientific knowledge and best practices in solar and photovoltaic simulation...
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Bratislava, Slovakia, 8 Aug 2011

Photovoltaic Planning In India Benefits
From New Generation Solar Resource Data And Online Tools

GeoModel Solar, a leading international consultancy company in solar resource and PV energy assessment, has announced geographic expansion of its flagship online system SolarGIS to India. SolarGIS high-resolution solar resource database, interactive maps and PV simulation software will be introduced to the Indian solar community at the 5th Renewable Energy India 2011 Expo in New Delhi. SolarGIS follows standards that make solar power planning more accurate and cost effective, and thus reduces risk in decision making...
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25 August 2011

A CSP Developers DNI Dream

...In South Africa progress has been made by the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies at Stellenbosch University, who have been working in partnership with GeoModel Solar to analyse the measured data to predict the solar resource available at the Solar Park. The result of this is that the 5GW solar park and corridor that the South African government is planning to build near Upington in the Northern Cape is considered as having amongst the best DNI in the world. Read more >>

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18 August 2011

GeoModel Solar enters the Indian Solar Market with SolarGIS

...SolarGIS high-resolution solar resource database, interactive maps and PV simulation software were introduced to the Indian solar community at the 5th Renewable Energy India 2011 Expo in New Delhi... Read more >>

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8 July 2011

Northern Cape solar resources among the best in the world

...The Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies used data on the solar potential of the area from Eskom and contracted Slovakia-based GeoModel Solar to analyse the measured data along with 17 years of satellite-derived solar data to predict the solar resource available at the solar park... Read more >>

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