Jun 05, 2020
Spectrafy to present the latest in irradiance measurement at PVSC-47
IEE
Be sure to sign in to the upcoming 2020 IEEE PVSC-47 Virtual Meeting to hear Spectrafy’s CTO, Viktar Tatsiankou, talk about our latest work in three-component irradiance measurement. His award-nominated talk, entitled: Improved Global Irradiance Decomposition by Sky Condition Classification from Measured Spectral Clearness Indices, will explore how we are able to leverage the SolarSIM-Gs spectral data to extract not just global irradiance, but diffuse and direct irradiance components as well – all from a single Class A sensor with no moving parts. Just one more exciting example of the power of Spectrafy’s multi-spectral measurement approach. Congrats to Viktar and his team!
Mar 24, 2020
COVID-19 Announcement
Corona
Spectrafy remains open for business, supporting our customers across Canada around the world. As Spectrafy qualifies as an essential business under the Government of Ontario’s guidelines, most components of our business remain active, with personnel working from home where possible. The health and well-being of our suppliers, employees and customers are of foremost importance and we are taking all necessary precautions to help everyone remain safe.
Mar 01, 2020
Check out editorial in North American Clean Energy, March/April 2020
Clean Energy

Check out our article in North American Clean Energy’s March/April 2020 issue. In it, Spectrafy CEO, Richard Beal, details why spectral uncertainty is inherent to the PV industry and how modern spectral pyranometers are enabling PV plant owners to routinely eliminate this increasingly important blindspot.

http://www.nacleanenergy.com/magazine/marapr_2020/#p=10

Jun 07, 2019
Spectrafy CTO wins HMEI’s Award for Young Engineers
HMEI

At the recently held World Meteorological Technology Expo in Geneva ,Switzerland, it was announced that Spectrafy’s CTO, Viktar Tatsiankou had been awarded the Hydro Meteorological Equipment Industry Association’s 2019 Award for Young Engineers, for his pioneering work inventing the SolarSIM technology.

The HMEI Award honors young engineers, not exceeding the age of 35 at the time of nomination, for outstanding work that has been published either in a scientific journal, a significant technical report, a project report or as summary of a successfully defended PhD thesis or that has been granted a patent. Congratulations Viktar!

Sep 26, 2018
Spectrafy attends Renewable Energy India, visits National Institute of Solar Energy
India
In September, Spectrafy’s CEO attended Renewable Energy India (REI) Expo – India’s largest solar power exhibition, where he took part in the expo’s CEO Conclave and met with some of India’s leading PV developers to discuss the latest in solar spectral measurement and analysis. Richard also took the opportunity to meet with Spectrafy’s local resellers, various universities and key national institutions, including the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), the Solar Energy Corporation of India and the National Institute of Wind Energy, which operates India’s Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Program. See below for a photo of the SolarSIM demonstration conducted at NISE, in Delhi.
Jun 27, 2018
Spectrafy exhibits at WCPEC-7 conference in Hawaii

In June, Spectrafy had the pleasure of presenting and exhibiting at the 7th World Conference of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7), held at the Hilton Waikaloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Spectrafy was on hand to share the latest in solar spectral measurement with the global academic community, including our latest software with automated spectral correcton factors and the first public demonstration of our SolarSIM-E prototype. The SolarSIM-E consists of a SolarSIM-G coupled with an automated rotating shadowband. The SolarSIM-E enables accurate measurement of global and diffuse solar spectra, from which the direct solar spectra, and various atmospheric parameters are automatically calculated. A video of the SolarSIM-E in operation is shown below.

While there, we also took the opportunity to run a short measurement campaign. A summary of the results, which include the effects of volcanic smog from the Kilueaua eruption, can be found here.

Spectrafy’s poster presented at WCPEC-7, entitled: “Real-time, efficient data acquisition of global spectral irradiance” can be found here.

May 08, 2018
Spectrafy presents at PVPMC workshop

In May, Spectrafy personnel attended the 10th PV Performance Modeling Workshop in Albuquerque New Mexico and presented our lastest work on enabling the SolarSIMs to automatically calculate PV spectral correction factors (SCFs). SCFs convert complex spectral data sets into intuitive times series data that can then be used in conventional PV modeling software like any other prorate/derate. Our poster on the topic, entitled “Towards routine measurement and use of solar spectral irradiance data”can be found on the PVPMC website here.