Solar related resources

Solar organizations

  • American Solar Energy Society

  • Solar Today, a magazine published by ASES

  • Solar Oregon

  • Solar Energy Industries Association

  • Oregon Solar + Storage Industries Association

  • International Solar Energy Society


    Solar energy laboratories

  • National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) solar

  • Sandia National Lab

  • Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, at the State University of New York at Albany

  • Solar Energy Laboratory, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison


    Meteorological and solar data

  • Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)

  • Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center (MIDC) hosted by NREL

  • Renewable Resource Data Center, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program of the U.S. Department of Energy

  • High Plains Regional Climate Center, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • NASA Surface Metereology and Solar Energy

  • National Climatic Data Center

  • Surface Radiation Reseach Branch Air Resources Laboratory

  • Pacific Northwest Cooperative Agricultural Weather Network (AgriMet) at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation


    General information

  • PV education

  • Oregon Office of Energy Solar energy home page

  • Florida Solar Energy Center, at the University of Central Florida

  • Energy Trust of Oregon

  • Global Solar Partners, resources developed by the Association for Science Education.

  • PV Resources Variety of information on photovoltaic systems


    Software Packages

  • pvlib open sorce software


    Instrument manufacturers

  • Hukseflux

  • Kipp & Zonen

  • EKO Instruments Trading Company, Ltd.

  • Eppley Laboratory, Inc.

  • LI-COR Inc.

  • Campbell Scientific, Inc.