NASA video
Dr. Paul Stackhouse, a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, explains the collaboration between NASA and RETScreen.
Transcript
I am Paul Stackhouse, a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. I lead a project that prepares NASA satellite analysis and modeling data sets for use in a variety of energy related technologies, including the design of renewable energy systems.
NASA's commitment to understanding and protecting our Earth system has included measurements from hundreds of instruments on many different satellites.
The analysis of the large volumes of data from these instruments has many different applications, one significant impact is the use of climate data in our collaboration with the RETScreen project.
The purpose of our project at NASA is to try to find new outlets for our data, beyond pure scientific research—we want to find outlets that bring tangible benefits to society.
Our collaboration with RETScreen started in 1999 and has been one of our longest and most successful.
Of the more than 342,000 document downloads from our main Web site in the last year, 20-25% go to support RETScreen users around the world.
In recent months, we have expanded our base climate data set to 22 years providing data parameters including weather and solar energy tailored right to the needs of RETScreen. These data sets result from scientific research funded through NASA projects at Langley and other centers.
Our team of researchers here at NASA Langley, along with our other NASA partners, is very pleased to contribute to the potential impact that this latest release of RETScreen has worldwide.
We are honored to play a role in improving the expansion of alternative energy production and energy efficient technologies globally.
NASA's commitment to understanding and protecting our Earth system has included measurements from hundreds of instruments on many different satellites.
The analysis of the large volumes of data from these instruments has many different applications, one significant impact is the use of climate data in our collaboration with the RETScreen project.
The purpose of our project at NASA is to try to find new outlets for our data, beyond pure scientific research—we want to find outlets that bring tangible benefits to society.
Our collaboration with RETScreen started in 1999 and has been one of our longest and most successful.
Of the more than 342,000 document downloads from our main Web site in the last year, 20-25% go to support RETScreen users around the world.
In recent months, we have expanded our base climate data set to 22 years providing data parameters including weather and solar energy tailored right to the needs of RETScreen. These data sets result from scientific research funded through NASA projects at Langley and other centers.
Our team of researchers here at NASA Langley, along with our other NASA partners, is very pleased to contribute to the potential impact that this latest release of RETScreen has worldwide.
We are honored to play a role in improving the expansion of alternative energy production and energy efficient technologies globally.
