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A team of researchers from the Institute for Family Agriculture of the Argentine Northwest (IPAF NOA) headquarters of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) has installed a solarimetric station in Paraje Hornillos, Jujuy province of Argentina. The objective is to study the characteristics of solar radiation in high altitude sites in that region of the country and its subsequent use for photovoltaic energy generation projects.
According to INTAs IPAF NOA Research coordinator, Pablo Gerbi, "it is a renewed and expanded network that will make it possible to acquire detailed, specific and high-quality information on the characteristics of solar radiation in the NOA and with it the segment of the national network, corresponding to the provinces of Salta and Jujuy, which began to be installed years ago in the towns of Abra Pampa, Yuto and Cerrillos”.
The data obtained will be used for the best use of solar energy "in some technologies used by family farmers in the area: solar dehydrators, solar pumps or electricity generation equipment, among others," it is explained in a statement.
Another derived initiative is the elaboration of maps and software for the estimation of photovoltaic or thermosolar electric power generation systems, which has "implications on a different scale since it can be used both for the design of large parks and for the sizing of small ones." generating units to be installed in a distributed manner in the communities that are not connected to the electricity grid,” said Gerbi.
It ensures that the equipment is made up of high-quality radiometric station instruments used in the Baseline Solar Radiation Network BSRN (which brings together more than 80 stations worldwide), the National Solar Radiation DataBase NSRDB (with stations in America), or the Brazilian SONDA network, as well as Uruguayan and Chilean networks.
The general project involves an automated network of 30 solar radiation measurement stations located throughout the country, which uses information and communication technologies to remotely transmit these measurements to different servers. |
