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7 κύρια συνθετικά στοιχεία στα οποία η Αγορά Ενέργειας πρέπει να δώσει απαντήσεις για την επιτυχημένη ενεργειακή μετάβαση

December 29, 2022/in Cleantech, News, Renewable Energy/by Eleni Gkagkani

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Το 2022 φεύγει αφήνοντας ένα τοπίο ρευστότητας και αβεβαιότητας. Τόσο η ενεργειακή κρίση η οποία επιδεινώθηκε λόγου του πολέμου στην Ουκρανία όσο και η κλιματική κρίση της οποίας η επιπτώσεις είναι πλέον οφθαλμοφανείς έχουν φέρει στην επιφάνεια τις χρόνιες ελλείψεις και παθογένειες στο χώρο της Ενέργειας τόσο σε Εθνικό όσο και σε Ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο. Το τρίπτυχο της ενέργειας είναι η Βιωσιμότητα της επένδυσης και της τεχνολογίας με γνώμονα την πράσινη μετάβαση, η Εξασφάλιση προσιτών τιμών και η Ασφάλεια παροχής. Ποια είναι όμως τα συνθετικά στοιχεία στην Αγορά Ενέργειας;

Key factors for Wind Resource Assessment

December 19, 2022/in Cleantech, Renewable Energy, Sustainability/by Eleni Gkagkani

Written by Vaggelis Ioannou, electrical engineer at Wattcrop.

Wind resource assessment is the most time-consuming procedure in majority of wind projects, and it determines the future of a project since it provides valuable data for it such as average wind speed, average wind density energy, Annual Energy Production (AEP), losses and uncertainty associated with AEP. Lack of wind resource or insufficient strictness with respect to technical due diligence during wind resource assessment leads to delayed or rejected projects by financiers. Therefore, a proper wind resource assessment is crucial for the project life and timeline.

Integration of Drones in Solar Systems.

December 12, 2022/in Cleantech, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability/by Eleni Gkagkani

Written by Margarita Kyrkou, surveyor and GIS specialist at Wattcrop.

The commercial adoption of drones is growing quickly, and the solar industry is no exception. Drones provide a practical solution for inspecting solar installations, from residential to utility-scale. They can be used to manage the entire design, construction and operation cycle of a system.

Drones support business efforts to avoid hazardous man-hours; reduce costs for maintenance, inspections, and repairs; and maximize energy production. Valuable use cases have been proven across pre-construction, commissioning, and operations & maintenance for not only the PV system itself, but also for surrounding infrastructure like utility lines, substations, and fencing. They are a useful tool as they collect data up to 50 times faster than manual methods and ensure greater safety.

Photovoltaics in combination with livestock farming

November 29, 2022/in Cleantech, Renewable Energy/by Eleni Gkagkani

Written by Aggeliki Marinou, environmental specialist at Wattcrop.

The combination of agriculture-livestock farming with photovoltaic parks is widely known abroad and has begun to be incorporated in Greek society, as the need to protect biodiversity, combined with energy efficiency is essential. More specifically, photovoltaic parks can be allocated for grasslands and wildflower meadows, which provide habitats for pollinators, birds and wildlife, as well as for sheep grazing.

The site is suitably landscaped so that animals can live in harmony with photovoltaic panels. The bases of the photovoltaic panels are placed at an appropriate height so as not to obstruct the passage of grazing animals and to ensure that there are passages for the passage of animals through the park.

Floating photovoltaics, a smart technology!

November 23, 2022/in Cleantech, Renewable Energy/by Eleni Gkagkani

Let’s meet the floating photovoltaics!

Written by Giannis Taousanidis, electrical engineer at Wattcrop

Solar photovoltaic power is an essential pillar in the efforts to addressing climate change. PVs are widely used, due to their easy installation and low maintenance. Over the years, we have seen a vast amount of PVs installed on rooftops or on the ground, when it comes to larger scale production.

But this does not have to be the case. It is feasible, nowadays, to install PVs on the surface of water reservoirs, lakes and even seas and oceans under the right conditions. The solar panels are mounted on platforms floating on the water surface.

Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) & Renewable Energy Sources

November 16, 2022/in Cleantech, Renewable Energy, Technology & IoT/by Eleni Gkagkani

Written by Margarita Kyrkou, surveyor and gis specialist at Wattcrop.

What is GIS system?

The need for spatial data has been known to spatial scientists since antiquity. The rapid development of technology led to the solution of the problem, with the emergence of Geographic Information Systems or GIS. The GIS system models space by gathering and combining a wealth of information. It has a database of geographic data and at the same time includes a database of descriptive data linked to the spatial data.