Dec 2 2010
Geostellar, a company that offers market information for renewable energy companies, has declared the availability of a solar energy simulation program for the use of utility scale, commercial and residential solar power generation.
The program will enable energy producing companies to assess the solar power production capability of any location. The program utilizes sophisticated algorithms to calculate the chances for ground-based and rooftop solar power production in any place of any country all over the world.
Currently, the company is performing a pilot run of the program with select numbers of solar power developing companies, property owners, public managers and utility companies, located in Southwest United States, Mid Atlantic and Midwest. The company is planning to add a number of regions, usage applications and extra resources for the program soon. The platform utilized for the program infers and processes data from a number of details such as partial solar power, digitized surface maps, transmission lines and local substations, areas prone to flood, important habitations, humidity, rainfall and local temperature. The program also includes details on initial investments and equipment required to understand viability of solar installation, reach to local markets, government regulations, available subsidiaries that can assist in the solar energy production. The company utilizes advanced 3D animation expertise, such as ray-tracing satellite-derived solar potential values over digital surface maps with a resolution less than one square meter per pixel, to calculate the anticipated output power.
The company has a research and development laboratory at Franklin TechVentures. At Lehigh University it has an incubator/post-incubator facility managed by BFTP/NEP. It utilizes the TechVentures’ lab to employ its geomatic computation potentialities to replicate the availability of water and basic facilities in shale gas plays, to introduce biofuel manufacturing process based on the availability of raw materials and reach to local markets and to create wind energy models with elaborate details.
The Geisteller program receives funding for its development from clean tech industry capitalist companies and from the Alternative Energy Development Program launched by the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP).
Source: http://www.geostellar.com/