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NETWAT Kick-off

NETWAT Kick-off was held on February 2 and 3, 2023 at Le Bourget du Lac, on the INES-CEA site.
This two-day meeting allowed the NETWAT collective gathered at Le Bourget du Lac and in remote, especially for our African partners to better know each other better, to share the socio-environmental issues related to the project (access to electricity, the dust cycle in West Africa, the evolution of water resources), to identify our links with the TENERRDIS energy transition competitiveness (...)

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NETWAT delegation at the 7th ICEM International Conference

The 7th edition of the International Conference Energy & Meteorology (ICEM) took place near Padova, Italy, from June 27th to June 29th, 2023. This year’s conference centered around the theme “Towards climate-resilient energy systems”. Over 150 participants converged in person to take part in three immersive days of plenary sessions, parallel discussions, poster presentations, workshops, and networking opportunities, all set in a relaxed and intellectually stimulating atmosphere. (...)

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SoilRatio training - Monitoring panel soiling

On 23 November 2023, a training session on the installation and use of SoilRatio, developed by Lysi, was held at the INES CEA Lac du Bourget site.
SoilRatio, Fig.1, is used to measure the degree of soiling of panels and its impact on photovoltaic production. The data is sent by FTP via a SIM card. An application enables the parameters to be set remotely.
This system will be deployed by the LISA team in Bambey (Senegal) in March 2024.
Figure 1 : the SoilRatio system
Figure 2 : Eric (...)

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