Energy and Agriculture Related Applied Science Projects using

Energy and Agriculture Related Applied Science Projects using NASA’s POWER/SSE Web Applications ESIP Meeting, Winter 2016 Jan 6 -8 Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr. – NASA Langley Research Center William Chandler, James Hoell, David Westberg, Dr. Taiping Zhang, SSAI Jason Barnett, Matt Tisdale, Brian Tisdale, Tyler Bristow, Booz-Allen-Hamilton John Kusterer and Brandi Quam – Atmospheric Science Data Center, NASA La. RC 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 1

POWER Overview • Objectives: Improve the Nation’s public/private capability for integrating environmental data from NASA research to support increased renewable energy development, energy efficiency and agricultural modeling. • Goals: Through partnerships, derive/validate/provide parameters relevant to industry needs, link to decision support, and transition capabilities when possible. • Website: http: //power. larc. nasa. gov. ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 1/8/16 2

POWER Approach: Research to Decisions NASA Earth-Sun Satellite Analysis and Modeling Projects: POWER/SSE Project Solar and meteorological parameters in specialized units (ISCCP, GEWEX SRB, CERES FLASHFlux, GMAO GEOS) Satellite observations, analysis and modeling Adaptation and validation of parameters Surface Solar Irradiance (W m-2) RETScreen® International Decision Support System design and planning tool Data Accessibility through Web Interface POWER/SSE Datasets and Web interface 200+ Parameters (most on-the-fly) 1/8/16 (~15, 000 unique users, ~ 1, 200, 000 hits and 230, 000 data downloads per month) ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop ~ 460, 000 Global Users 3

SSE Supports Solar & Renewable Energy Sector Using SRB & GMAO Atmospheric Reanalysis SSE v 6 • 22 Year climatological • Over 200 parameters, many on the fly, tailored for renewable energy • Data quality information • ASCII tables, time series, regional plots/data • Direct connection to 2 renewable energy DSS tools • 20 Millionth data request fulfilled in July for release 6. 0 1/8/16 http: //eosweb. larc. nasa. gov/sse ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 4

SSE for Decision Support: RETScreen Clean Energy Analysis RETScreen Climate Database • Under Natural Resources Canada • Aimed for both feasibility and detailed scenario analysis of clean energy projects • Data for built-in cities of world or direct query of SSE data through web • >459, 000+ users • Release 4: 36 languages • Claim approx. $6 Billion saved last 10 yrs; approx 10% saved due to NASA SSE inputs 1/8/16 NASA data In Situ data www. retscreen. net Points represent world’s cities (~10, 000). Red have in situ observations. Blue defer to NASA La. RC data sets (~5, 000). Data for locations between points are found through a direct link to SSE. ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 5

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Direct Retrieval of RETScreen Formatted Data from SSE 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 7

Projects Facilitated by RETScreen 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 8

RETScreen Plus - Sampling of Newsletter Articles The follow articles available at: http: //www. retscreen. net/ang/news. php Pennsylvania Firm Deploys Energy Management Software Renewable Energy in Wisconsin Funding Opportunity – NYSERDA Solar Thermal Incentive Program Wicked Good Solar in Maine World Bank Supports Water & Sanitation Utility Energy Audits Germany Promotes Building Energy Efficiency in Ukraine Strengthening the Foundations of Clean Energy in West Africa RETScreen Enables Brazilian Clean Energy Market Saudi Arabia Builds Clean Energy Capacity 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 9

RETScreen/SSE Example 1: Wisconsin’s Solar Water Heating System Program 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 10

RETScreen/SSE Example 2: Wicked Joe’s Coffee Roasting Company 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 11

POWER Supports Near-Real Time: NASA La. RC Building Energy Analysis NASA data and/or surface measurements 1/8/16 CERES FLASHFLux (using GMAO FP-IT) NRT Time Series POWER web portal ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop RETScreen Energy Analysis 12

Applied Science Uses: Energy RETScreen Plus - Performance Analysis Module § Helps user monitor, analyze, and report key energy performance data to facility operators, managers and senior decision-makers § Energy management software tool § § Monitoring, Targeting & Reporting (MT&R) Measurement & Verification (M&V) Energy tracking Data Analytics Integrates near-real-time NASA -derived solar satellite (CERES FLASHFlux) and weather data (GMAO FP-IT) for entire surface of planet Reporting 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 13

RETScreen Plus - User Info § Roughly 175, 000 users worldwide (40% of total RETScreen user base) § NASA data made available in 36 languages covering 2/3 rd world population, including throughout US and in developing countries § Example of some users: § § In the US, Ford Motor Company, High Construction Company, Weston Bakeries, Bell Labs and NASA (CASI work group) § Numerous other enterprise customers who manage multiple facilities (e. g. pension funds, government agencies, landlords, utilities, private developers, multinationals, hospitals, school boards, etc. ) § Extensive number of International financial institutions and agencies (e. g. World Bank, United Nations, etc. ) and organizations, and their clients, in developing countries Specific examples presented on following slides 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 14

RETScreen Example #1: Solar Panel System to Supplement Building Energy Needs Working with center energy management officials, four building energy assessments were completed using NASA Earth data and the RETScreen Energy Plus tool. Net Energy Savings 160 MWh (2/10 – 3/13 ) Steady state RETScreen regression models now complete (NASA TMs available). Solar Panels Added Supported by NASA’s Climate Adaptation Science Investigator Project (CASI) 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 15

RETScreen Example #2: Solar Power Plant Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative 293 k. W Solar Power Plant Facility (Ottawa, Ca) Monthly electrical output compared to monthly averaged solar irradiance (corrected with tilt parameterization) from FLASHFlux 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 16

RETScreen Example #3: GSHP System Optimization of Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) System Lee et al. , 2014, Optimizing GSHP Performance with ICT and RETScreen Plus, Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 8 (2014) 677 -681. “The Republic of Korea has implemented a RHO (renewable heat obligation) whereby public sector buildings larger than 10, 000 m 2 must reduce their heating energy consumption by at least 11% between 2015 -2030”. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 17

RETScreen Example #3: GSHP System GMAO FP-IT POWER (FLASHFLux) 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 18

POWER Agricultural Support 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 19

Example #1: POWER and DSSAT 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 20

Example #2: POWER and Ag. MIP/Ag. Merra 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 21

Ag Example #3: POWER Agricultural Usage by CSIRO APSIM African Crop Modeling Project APSIM (The Agricultural Production Systems s. IMulator) – internationally recognized as a – – highly advanced simulator of agricultural systems. DSSAT based formatted model Run for crop systems in West, East and Southern Africa FLASHFlux surface fluxes are “gold standard” of surface irradiance estimates for these regions (surface measurements are too poorly calibrated and/or maintained) Also uses surface temperature and other parameters from GEOS FP-IT Results complements of John Hargreaves, CSIRO 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 22

Next Steps: Adding GIS for Web Site Modernization and Mobile Devices • End-users of NASA data products increasingly requesting geospatial tool compatibility • La. RC ASDC is working to stand up “Web services” used to make the application platform and technology independent by following standards (i. e. DAP, WCS, WMS, etc. ), promoting interoperability • One of those is an Arc. GIS Image Service => NASA’s license with Esri allows the agency to acquire access to Esri Arc. GIS software at no additional cost to programs • POWER/SSE now leading project, collaborating with ASDC, to add GIS capabilities and web services for access to data products. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 23

POWER/SSE GIS Sample • Browser enabled GIS functionality • Display parameters from global to small scale • Add background maps • Point for values • Download data to support ASCII or Geo. TIFF applications • Scales to mobile devices 1/8/16 • Release Jan ‘ 16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 24

Summary and Conclusions • NASA Applied Science program aims to develop pathways for NASA derived data sets to influence decision support in multiple societal benefit areas including energy related technologies • POWER/SSE have delivered NASA data products to users in the renewable energy field for greater than 15 years • Usage continues to grow as more and more seek information on RE technologies • Connecting directly to key Decision Support tools like RETScreen and DSSAT are key to creating additional value • Some of these cases seem appropriate for the CRT “taking action” • POWER/SSE data sets and web technology rapidly becoming outdated so: • NASA is now funding a project to add GIS capability to SSE and support mobile device access • Simultaneously, updating all data sets and all web capabilities • With these efforts POWER/SSE will continue to expand dissemination of NASA research data products to Energy and Agricultural sectors by evolving with user capabilities to use more advanced tools. 25

Web sites: • POWER http: //power. larc. nasa. gov • Surface meteorology and Solar Energy http: //eosweb. larc. nasa. gov/sse 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 26

POWER Next: Adding GIS to SSE Raw Data Inputs Current Workflow Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) 3 -Hourly Interfaces to Access Data Calculating & Storing Parameter SSE Data Inputs Generate Daily Raw Files for SSE For each Grid Box per Parameter 1/8/16 Generate & Store Daily Time Series (by Lat/Lon for Limited Parameters in ASCII) 1. Daily Data Generate & Store Climatological Averages (by Lat/Lon for Multiple Parameters in ASCII) 2. Location/Regional Data Subsets; 3. Interannual Variability; 4. On-The-Fly Parameters; 5. RETScreen 6. HOMER New SSE-GIS Workflow GMAO Data Assimilation Products 3 -hourly Geographic Information System (GIS) Generate & Store Climatological Averages (by Parameter for the Globe in ASCII) OGC Services (ex. WMS, WCS, WFS, WPS) Analytics 7. Global Data Sets ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop Optimized for Mobile Devices Visualization Geospatial Data Formats (ex. Shapefile, KML) 27

POWER Data Product Usage: RETScreen Performance Plus (imbedded in RETScreen Suite) – Internationally recognized for monitoring, targeting and verification of clean energy technologies in operational building systems – Special ASCII time series format used for SW + meteorological parameters from GEOS FP-IT – RETScreen reports at least 20, 000 users worldwide with most using the NASA data sets from FLASHFlux production – Example usage includes Weston Bakeries (Wonder Bread), Ford Motor Company, Property management firms, government buildings (i. e. , NASA), etc. 1/8/16 Usage results from Greg J. Leng, Manager, RETScreen International ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 28