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June 12, 2013

DLR and CIEMAT commission a meteorological station for solar power plants
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 12, 2013
How much solar energy reaches a power plant? Is the Sun often obscured by dust or other atmospheric particles? Power station operators need a great deal of meteorological data before deciding on the location of a new power plant. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Spanish research centre, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT) have just commissioned a meteorological research station at the Pla ... read more

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