GEOSS ADC Architecture Workshop Lionel Menard, Lucien Wald, Philippe Blanc Ecole des Mines de Paris

Motivations Feasibility studies for sitting and sizing solar power plants 1.Investors and electricity producers willing to invest in solar plants need precise and thorough information to support decision-making. 2.On their behalf, consulting companies perform feasibility studies in order to decide where to sit power plants and which technology to use ensuring a profitable return on investment. 3.To reach that goal, consultants need a single, easy and unified access to data sets. Such data sets include meteorological, geographical and environmental parameters. Interoperability is a key point for the success of the scenario

Input parameters & output result Inputs: –bounding box (lat., lon.), dates, scale, optional layers, valid address Output results: –the geo-referenced layers (GeoTIFF, shape files) should be provided as a downloadable archive Irradiance, slope, shadow, elevationHydro corridors, electricity, land use, risk and hazard

Summary Issues Relation with ADC to integrate the Web service client –Integration on the portal –Consider other clients (portlet, autonomous client) –Help of the SIF for registry –Position paper of RAL need to be explored ( Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities)