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Campbell Scientific offers data acquisition systems specifically designed for solar farm weather monitoring applications, including utility scale solar farm monitoring systems and turnkey solutions. Key components include data loggers, pyranometers with heated ventilators, air temperature/back of module temperature sensors, and TCP/IP communication modules.

Our Measurement Consultants are committed to assisting our clients in the design and implementation of highly customized stations, advanced research and development stations, and custom application programming interfaces for data collection. Our expertise in system design, production, and installation ensures cost-effective, quality solutions.

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MeteoPV Distributed Solar Resource Monitoring Platform

The MeteoPV is a purpose-built photovoltaic (PV) resource data platform, ideal for distributed PV monitoring and functioning as a plane-of-array (POA), albedo, and soiling secondary weather station. A...read more

CR-PVS1 Soiling Index RTU for Photovoltaic Modules

Soiling, the loss of photovoltaic (PV) module power output due to accumulation of dirt and/or snow on the panel surface, has become one of the most important operational issues of solar energy power p...read more

SMP100 Solar-Module Performance Monitoring System

The SMP100 is a solar-module performance-monitoring system. Module-soiling tests and power-performance monitoring are two common applications for the SMP100. Non-inverter-tied maximum power-point meas...read more

Instrumentation

We offer a variety of products that can be used to create systems for Solar Energy. Many of the major components used to create these systems are listed below. Please let us know if we can help you configure a system.

CM260 Adjustable Solar Sensor Mounting Kit for ATI Torque Tube

CM265 Adjustable Solar Sensor Mounting Kit for Circular Torque Tubes

TE525-ET Rain Gauge with 6 in. Orifice for ET Station

CSP100 Concentrated-Solar-Technology Monitoring Package

SMP100 Solar-Module Performance Monitoring System

SkyVUEPRO LIDAR Ceilometer

SOLAR1000 Solar Monitoring Station

CS120A Atmospheric Visibility Sensor

CS125 Present Weather and Visibility Sensor

SOLAR200 Solar Monitoring Station

UTILITY100 Utility-Grade Weather Station for SCADA Operations

CMP11-L Pyranometer

CHP1-L Pyrheliometer

107 Temperature Probe

110PV-L Surface-Mount Thermistor

CS220-L Surface-Mount Type E Thermocouple Sensor

034B-L Met One Wind Set

CS100 Barometric Pressure Sensor

TE525-L Rain Gage with 6 in. Orifice

TB4-L Rain Gage with 8 in. Orifice

HC2S3-L Temperature and Relative Humidity Probe

CR1000 Measurement and Control Data Logger

CR3000 Micrologger

CR200X Datalogger

CR800 Measurement and Control Data Logger

CR850 Measurement and Control Datalogger with Built-in Keyboard and Display

NL120 Ethernet Interface

NL115 Ethernet Interface and CompactFlash Module

CFMC2G 2G CompactFlash Memory Card (-40 to +85C)

MD485 RS-485 Multidrop Interface

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Surface Temperature Sensors

Solar Radiation Sensors

Air Temperature Sensors

Precipitation Sensors

Data Loggers

Case Studies

Ontario: Solar-Energy Programs
With climate change and pollution becoming important issues globally, it is important for governments and......read more

Chile: Solar-Panel Soiling
Valhalla, an energy company in Chile, is making resource assessment and solar-panel soiling measurements in......read more

South Africa: Solar Prospecting
Historically, the South African energy sector had been monopolized by a single state-owned utility company......read more

Solar Monitoring at Canada’s First Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plant
The small southern Alberta city of Medicine Hat is the first city in the world......read more

Chile: Solar-Energy Assessment
Solar energy resource assessment projects are critical to the successful siting of solar thermal power......read more

North Carolina: Monitoring “Green” Hotel
When Dennis Quaintance decided to build the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina, he knew......read more

Solar Decathlon
The Solar Decathlon takes place every other year on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.......read more

Retailer Goes Solar
Recreational Equipment, Inc., (REI) is a national retail cooperative that has made a corporate pledge......read more

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