Dubai , the new location for BSRN station in Middle East ... · • Supporting DEWA’s long-term plan for 5 GW of solar plants (both PV and CSP) with a total area of about 100 km2,

Dubai , the new location for BSRN station in Middle East/Arabian

Peninsula

17-July -2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction to DEWA • Motivation for Joining the BSRN • DEWA’s Experience with Meteorological Stations • Manpower Plan • Site Description • Instrumentation and Data Structure • O&M and Calibration Plan

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Introduction to DEWA

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About Dubai/UAE

• Dubai is the largest and most populous city in

UAE

• Dubai is a global city and a business hub of

the middle east

• It attracted world attention through the

construction of the world tallest building

• The location of the United Arab Emirates and

Dubai within the Sunbelt highlights solar

energy’s major role as a renewable source of

energy.

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About DEWA

Our Vision

A sustainable Innovative world-class utility

Our Mission

We are committed to the happiness of our

stakeholders and promoting Dubai’s vision

through the delivery of sustainable electricity and

water services at a world-class level of reliability,

efficiency and safety in an environment that

nurtures innovation with a competent workforce

and effective partnerships; supporting resources

sustainability.

Our Motto

For Generations To Come.

11,000

No. of Employees

790 K

No. of Customers

470 MIGD

Water Production

10200

MW

Power Generation

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Mohammed Bin Rashid Solar Park

13 MW

First Phase Completed (PV)

200 MW

Second Phase Completed (PV)

800 MW

Third Phase, In construction (PV)

700 MW

Fourth Phase ,PPA signing-Q4 (CSP)

5000 MW Solar Park total installed capacity by 2030

(PV + CSP)

25%

renewables

generation

capacity

target by

2030,

& 75% by

2050

Renewable Solar

Generation

Energy Efficiency

Smart Grid integration

Water

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DEWA’s R&D Center

• Building technologies for

environmental integration and

element innovation

• Demand response and demand

side management analysis

• Water recovery and

technologies and its efficient

use

• Solar water treatment

technologies

• Renewable energy resource

analysis as a key for efficient

technology development

• Innovative generation technologies

that adapt efficiently and reliably to

the region

• Technologies that will drive the high

penetration of renewable proposals

DEWA R&D center

programs

Focus

• Smart grid technologies for

future growth and adoption

• Big Data Analytics

• Grid-open integration of

renewable technologies

• Substation automation

Solar Research

PV Module Performance and Reliability Testing

Solar Resource Assessment & Forecasting

Other Solar Technology Performance Testing

Soiling Effect on PV modules

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Solar Research



Concentrated Solar Technology Performance Testing


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Solar Research





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Solar Research





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Solar Research





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Motivation for Joining BSRN

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Motivation

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Motivation

• Representing regions with hot, arid climates

(very common for solar plants) in Middle

East

• Same location of MBR Solar Park (one of

the largest single-site solar plant in the

world)

• Close to DEWA’s research facilities and

outdoor test field

What makes the site special?

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Objectives • Supporting the afore-mentioned research activities

with high quality meteorological data (especially

radiation data)

• Supporting DEWA’s long-term plan for 5 GW of solar

plants (both PV and CSP) with a total area of about

100 km2, with accurate assessment of solar resource

• For a successful integration of large PV plants in a

stable electric grid, short term precise forecasting

(e.g. 10 minutes to 1 hour) of future plant

performance

• Conduct research studies related to assessment and

forecasting of solar radiation (e.g. cloud nowcasting,

sandstorm forecasting, validation/data assimilation

for numerical weather prediction with respect to

forecasts of PV production, validation of satellite-

based solar radiation models)

• Exchange and potential participation in joint projects

with the international community Source: http://frv.com/en/projects/

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Existing Station Descriptions

Weather station at the 13 MW power plant

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1 3 5 7 9 11

Temperature(oC)

Month(Numbers)

TMY LongTerm 2017 2016 2015 2014

400

450

500

550

600

1 3 5 7 9 11

POA(W/m

2)

Month(Number)

TMY LongTerm 2017 2016 2015 2014

350

400

450

500

550

600

1 3 5 7 9 11

GHI(w/m

2)

Month(Numbers)

TMY LongTerm 2017 2016 2015 2014

Typical metrological Year data

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Winter

Red-rich spectrum Blue-rich spectrum

o Effect of spectral irradiance distribution on the outdoor performance of PV modules in the UAE (to

be submitted to progress in photovoltaics )

Study the impact of solar spectrum distribution on the outdoor performance of different PV module technologies Summer

Existing Station Descriptions Analyzing the seasonal variation in Solar Spectrum

Manpower Plan

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Manpower plan

Marco Stefancich, PhD BSRN Station manager

over 20 years experience in solar field

Jim Joseph John, PhD

over 10 years experience in

solar field

Aaesha Alnuaimi, PhD


solar field

Ammar Elnosh, M.Sc


solar field

More than 35 years of experience in Photovoltaics

More than 250 engineers working worldwide in the business field

More than 20 measurement stations built in international projects with focus on Solar irradiation

7 international irradiation stations presently run by TUV, partly under remote control

Muhammed Perves

Station

Technician with more

than 5 years experience in

O&M and calibration

BSRN site Description

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BSRN Site description

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Source: maps.google.com


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13 MWp

200 MWp

200 MWp


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Site completely fenced, security present 24/7

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Existing Meteorological Station (Geonica)

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Platform and Post Position

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Platform 6 m x 3 m @ 2.7 m height

Hinged tower for easy cleaning maintenance of Filters and domes of radiation sensors @ 10m height Instrumentation table

@ 4 m height

Shadow, reflections and horizon analysis

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Instrumentation and Data Structure

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Solar Resource Station Instrumentation

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[01]EKO

MS57 DNI

Hub

Moxa

Coax H

iFre

q.

[13]EKO

MS-711

[10]K&ZUV-A

GPS

[15]TrimbleNetR9

[14]Cimel

Photometer

[07]Campbell

RS100

[11]K&ZUV-B

[09]K&Z SGR4Refl. IR

[06]EKO

MS80Refl. G

[05]EKO

MS80Refl. G

[17]Vaisala

WXT532Speed&Dir.

CR6 CDMCampbell logging system

[02]EKO

MS80

[04]EKO

MS80

[03]EKO

MS80 Diff.

[08]K&Z

SGR4 IR

[19]Campbell

CS 25Vis.

[20]EKO

SRF-04

RS

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2 &

Pow

er

RS

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2C

0..

3V

0..

3V

0 .

. 10

mV

@10

0Ω

1kH

z

RS485: IRDiff, Tbody; 1Hz

IrrDiff : 0..10mV: Tbody : NTC10kOhm; 1Hz

GH

I : 0

..10

mV

:

Tbody

: N

TC

10k

Ohm;

1H

z

Irrtilt : 0..10mV: Tbody : NTC10kOhm; 1Hz

RS485: refl. IR, Tbody; 1Hz

Irrrefl : 0..10mV: Tbody : NTC10kOhm; 1Hz

RS 485: Windspeed 1s; Winddirection 1s

Irrrefl : 0..10mV: Tbody : NTC10kOhm; 1Hz

RS485: Temp, Pressure, Rel. Humidity, 60s

RS485: Visibility & Present Weather, 60s

[18]Vaisala

WXT535Speed&Dir.

RS485: direct spectrum

To Internet

[12]SpectrafySIM-D2

Ethernet

RS485 RS422 RS232

Analog

RS232: Tracker System Parameter settng

RS485: 2 x soiling; 1s

RS485: 2 x soiling; 1s

K&Z Dust-IQSoiling

230V

AC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

24V

DC 12

VD

C

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

12V

DC

Power Supply

12V

DC

Irr

tilt :

0..

1m

V:

Tbody

: N

TC

10k

Ohm;

1H

z

[16] Atomometrics Soiling Station

CR1000

Basic Irradiation measurement

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DNI First Class Pyrheliometer EKO MS-57

GHI Secondary Standard Pyranometer EKO MS-80 + MV-01

DHI Secondary Standard Pyranometer EKO MS-80 + MV-01

IR down Pyrgeometer K&Z SGR4-A + CVF4

UV (A&B) UV-Sensors K&Z UVS-A/B-T

Active Tracker EKO STR-22G

All irradiation sensors calibrated with tracability to Davos Standard

All irradiation sensors Ventilated

Reflected Solar Radiation @ 10m height EKO MS-80 + MV-01

Reflected Solar Radiation @ 1.5m height EKO MS-80 + MV-01

Up-welling Infrared Radiation @ 10m height K&Z SGR4-A + CVF4

DNI Spectral Irradiance Spectrafy SolarSIM-D2

GHI Spectral Irradiance EKO MS-711

Rotating Shadowband Radiometer Campbell RS-100

Extended Irradiation measurement

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Meteorological measurement

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Wind speed and wind direction@ 10m height Vaisala WXT 532

Pressure, temperature, humidity & precipitation @ 1.5m Vaisala WXT 535

Visibility and present weather Campbell CS125

GPS Perceptable Water Vapor measurement Javad Delta 3

Sky Camera EKO SRF-04

Automatic Sun Tracking Photometer Cimel CE318

Additional Sensors

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Soiling Station Atonometrics

Presence switch

Cameras

Data handling and storage system

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Measurement, Data handling and storage system at the Photovoltaic Test Site in Dubai

REC EXT EXT2 SRS

Keithley

ESX

T G HuH Loads

MS SQL Database Acron Database

T G EA Loads

SPS

T EA Loads

Campbell

ESX Linux

NAS Storage for CSV files

T G GPS

Cloud Calculation

Acron CSV importImport to MSDB

Grid Control

Grid Gen

ATS

Energy Meter

EA Loads Resistant

TÜV Control instead of SPS

DEWA MySQL Database

Access via prepared SQL queries

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NTP

Dewa Backup of .csv-files

O&M and Calibration Plan

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O&M of Data and System

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Short interval maintenance:

Dewa Technician onsite 6 d/week (Checking and cleaning)

Long-term maintenance & annual calibration:

TUV Rheinland contracted

Automatic warnings in case readings fail BSRN recommended QC-

tests extremely rare or physically possible

Ratio of Global SW / Sum SW

Ratio of Dif SW / Global SW

SWup to Sum SW comparison

LW to Tair comparison

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Calibration procedures

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Secondary set of identical irradiation sensors

Calibrated in Davos in two years interval

Serve for spare

Serve for on site calibration in one year intervals

Photometer sent to NASA for calibration

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Dubai , the new location for BSRN station in Middle East ... · • Supporting DEWA’s long-term plan for 5 GW of solar plants (both PV and CSP) with a total area of about 100 km2,