A NASA applied science program that connects end users in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable buildings and agroclimatology with solar and meteorological datasets celebrated its 25th anniversary Sept. 21 and 22 with a virtual Global Community (GloCo) Summit.
A NASA applied science program that connects end users in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable buildings and agroclimatology with solar and meteorological datasets celebrated its 25th anniversary Sept. 21 and 22 with a virtual Global Community (GloCo) Summit. The Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project is led by Paul Stackhouse, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
The GloCo Summit included talks from Stackhouse, Emily Sylak-Glassman, program manager of the NASA Applied Sciences Program; Gerrit Hoogenboom, preeminent scholar in the Food Systems Institute and professor of agricultural and biological Engineering at the University of Florida; Drury Crawley, a Bentley Fellow and director of building performance research with Bentley Systems, Inc.; and Gregory Leng, creator and director of the RETScreen Clean Energy Management software platform at Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetENERGY research centre in Varennes, Quebec. Run by the Canadian government, RETScreen is a longtime partner of POWER that enables low-carbon planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting. Its Clean Energy Management Software platform, used by more than 732,000 users worldwide, integrates the latest version of POWER’s daily and climatological Analysis Ready Data products.
A NASA applied science program that connects end users in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable buildings and agroclimatology with solar and meteorological datasets celebrated its 25th anniversary Sept. 21 and 22 with a virtual Global Community (GloCo) Summit. The Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project is led by Paul Stackhouse, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
The summit featured inaugural NASA POWER / RETScreen Recognition of Excellence Awards in three categories: Facility Owners & Operators, Service Providers & Facilitators, and Educators & Researchers. Each of the award winners made a keynote presentation on the application of POWER data in their work. The summit also included brief talks from a number of POWER data users on topics ranging from the monitoring of crop yield and crop loss due to adverse meteorological conditions, to a solar insolation lookup tool, to a solar power site suitability study, to powering instrumented drones making measurements over oceans.
Details of the latest POWER version can be found here: NASA POWER Project Powers Up with New Version.
