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 LaRC 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 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 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop SSE Supports Solar & Renewable Energy Sector Using SRB & GMAO Atmospheric Reanalysis SSE v6 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 http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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 RETScreen Release 4. Note the usage of the NASA derived data both from SRB and it’s inputs (i.e., GMAO GEOS-4) NASA data In Situ data www.retscreen.net Points represent world’s cities (~10,000). Red have in situ observations. Blue defer to NASA LaRC data sets (~5,000). Data for locations between points are found through a direct link to SSE. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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

Projects Facilitated by RETScreen Some projects completed using RETScreen and most likely NASA provided data sets for at least some parameters. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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

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

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

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

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 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 Integrates near-real-time NASA -derived solar satellite (CERES FLASHFlux) and weather data (GMAO FP-IT) for entire surface of planet Data Analytics Reporting 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

RETScreen Plus - User Info Roughly 175,000 users worldwide (40% of total RETScreen user base) NASA data made available in 36 languages covering 2/3rd 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

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). Supported by NASA’s Climate Adaptation Science Investigator Project (CASI) Solar Panels Added 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

RETScreen Example #2: Solar Power Plant Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative 293 kW 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

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 m2 must reduce their heating energy consumption by at least 11% between 2015-2030”. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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

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

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

Example #2: POWER and AgMIP/AgMerra 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop Ag Example #3: POWER Agricultural Usage by CSIRO APSIM African Crop Modeling Project APSIM (The Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator) 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

Next Steps: Adding GIS for Web Site Modernization and Mobile Devices End-users of NASA data products increasingly requesting geospatial tool compatibility LaRC 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 ArcGIS Image Service => NASA’s license with Esri allows the agency to acquire access to Esri ArcGIS 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. We will leverage ArcGIS Portal for discoverability of all our services, tools, maps and apps. Our portal will be federated with the geospatial platform and data.gov for increased discoverability. 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 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 GeoTIFF applications Scales to mobile devices Release Jan ‘16 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

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. 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

ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop 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

POWER Next: Adding GIS to SSE Current Workflow Geographic Information System (GIS) OGC Services (ex. WMS, WCS, WFS, WPS) Analytics Visualization Optimized for Mobile Devices Geospatial Data Formats (ex. Shapefile, KML) New SSE-GIS Workflow Raw Data Inputs Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) 3-Hourly GMAO Data Assimilation Products 3-hourly SSE Data Inputs Generate Daily Raw Files for SSE For each Grid Box per Parameter Calculating & Storing Parameter Generate & Store Climatological Averages (by Lat/Lon for Multiple Parameters in ASCII) Generate & Store Climatological Averages (by Parameter for the Globe in ASCII) Generate & Store Daily Time Series (by Lat/Lon for Limited Parameters in ASCII) The current process, the two primary products we use (SRB and Climatology), that we use as inputs to develop SSE. A series of perl scripts that are used to extract the data and calculate the daily averages for the SSE parameters. Then over the years we’ve developed 3 customized subsetter to meet community requirements for data formats. (daily, regional, and global products). The new process will leverage a GIS to provide OGC compliant geospatial data web services, directly from the source data repositories, as inputs to geoprocessing analytical tools and visualizations. 1. Daily Data 2. Location/Regional Data Subsets; 3. Interannual Variability; 4. On-The-Fly Parameters; 5. RETScreen 6. HOMER 7. Global Data Sets Interfaces to Access Data 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop

POWER Data Product Usage: RETScreen Performance Plus 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. Usage results from Greg J. Leng, Manager, RETScreen International 1/8/16 ESIP Ag/Energy Cluster CRT Workshop