Portion of Nevada Power Clark Station near Las Vegas, Nevada as seen from the weather station. |
Weather station operations: (L/R) Gary, Tom, Rik, Mary Jane, and Pete |
Weather station installation completed by (L/R) Rik, Allison, and Pete. |
Weather station at entrance building in view of Amonix systems. |
Back of two Amonix integrated high-concentration photovoltaic arrays (25KW each). |
One of three Amonix Integrated High-concentration Photovoltaic (IHCPV) arrays operating at the Clark Power Station. |
Amonix Integrated High-concentration Photovoltaic (IHCPV) arrays focus solar radiation onto high-efficiency PV cells. |
Tracking and support structure of the Amonix collector |
Amonix integrated high-concentration photovoltaic arrays |
Amonix integrated high-concentration photovoltaic arrays |
Profile of Amonix concentrating PV system |
Amonix integrated high-concentration photovoltaic arrays |
Two Amonix concentrating photovoltaic systems |
Amonix concentrating photovoltaic systems near solar noon |
Weather station crew: (L/R) Allison Gray, Pete Gotseff, Tom Stoffel, Mary Jane Hale, Gary Wood and Rik Hurt |
Weather station operations: (L/R) Tom, Allison, Mary Jane, Pete, Gary, and Rik |
(L/R) Allison, Nancy, Gary, Mary Jane, and Tom |
Allison Gray and Rik Hurt from the University of Nevada Las Vegas |
Rik completes data acquisition system installation |
The weather station includes air temperature and relative humidity sensors mounted in naturally aspirated sun shield (left) with wind speed and wind direction instruments (right) mounted on the roof of the entrance building. |
Tom points to wind set installed near roof level at site entrance
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Gary Wood and Mary Jane Hale discuss the new weather station installation. A pyranometer (foreground) measures total hemispheric solar irradiance. A pyrheliometer on an automatic solar tracker (white) measures direct normal irradiance. |
Weather station components include (L/R) a pyrheliometer for measuring direct normal solar irradiance mounted in an automatic solar tracker, a pyranometer mounted on a support post for total hemispheric solar irradiance, and a tipping bucket rain gauge. |
Rik inspects final installation of automatic solar tracker with pyrheliometer (left) and pyranometer mounted on support post (right). Note - the microwave communication antenna was lowered below the pyranometer field of view. |
Mary Jane checks solar tracker operation
Allison cleans the pyrheliometer window. |
Clark Photovoltaic Station Partners: Nevada Power, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Amonix, Inc., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Bombard Electrical |
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