SoDa Buzz: They talk about us !

Date: April 21^st 2011
langage: French
author: Aurélien Giesbert
title: "Le CEP veut rendre le renouvelable plus fiable"

The CEP, Centre Energétique et Procédés, who has developed SoDa, leads pioneer research projects in the domain of renewable energies. Mr. Aurélien Giesbert decided to dedicate a testimony on the specific aspect of the quality of the production forecasts of the "clean" energies.

Date: March 2011 - Jan. 2012

J. Latosinska, from the Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, in Poland, wrote a book entitled "Ultraviolet and Environement". She asked Mines ParisTech / Transvalor in March 2011 for the right to exploit the map of radiation in UV (280 - 400 nm) reaching the ground (Fig. 1). The displayed quantity is the irradiation for a day averaged over fifteen years (1990-2004), expressed in J/cm². This approximative assessment is obtained from observations made by meteorological satellites. Click on map to enlarge.

The handbook has been published at the end of the year 2011. The full reference is:

L.Latanowicz, J.N.Latosinska
UV radiation and environment (in Polish: Promieniowanie UV a srodowisko)
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2011
ISBN: 978-83-01-16787-5, pp. 248

Date: January 2011

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Portal provides convenient access to the full range of Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) data and information. This website advertises the SoDa website.

This report testifies "A European project was launched to develop downstream services in renewable energy. A high-resolution solar atlas [link] was released for the south-eastern part of France. Together with the 20-year Helioclim-1 database and the SoDa service, this represents valuable information for energy-policy and investment planning. The SoDa service ensures free and open access to surface solar radiation and will become part of the GEOSS DataCORE."

Date: Nov. 17^th 18^th 2011

Release of the Report. Pages about SoDa: 41-44.

Date: November 28^th 2007

"World's sunniest spots hint at energy bonanza" is a publication which refers to a series of testimonies, like the one of Mr. Thierry Ranchin from MINES ParisTech. Please note that Mr. Jose Achache, head of the 72-nation Group on Earth Observations (GEO), also brought his comment on the topic.

Newspaper from Melbourne, Australia, same date

"Red-hot Australia just the spot for solar energy projects"

Date: March 14^th 2007

"SODA. Integration and exploitation of networked solar radiation Databases for environment monitoring (SODA)" is the IST (Information Society Technologies) Project Fact Sheet on SoDa. The SoDa project has been funded under the 5^th programme of the European Community.