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Solar_Village (Solar Village, Saudi Arabia)

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Image 1 - A view of the instrument site and the site manager Image 2 - View of the sunphotometer and site manager Steve Wilcox Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 24.90693° North Longitude: 46.39729° East Elevation: 764.0 Meters Site Description: This instrument is located on a rooftop at the Solar Village in Saudi Arabia, approximately 50km northwest of Riyadh. "With a capacity of 350 kilowatts, (Solar Village) is the world's largest solar powered electricity generating system...(it) occupies an area of over 67 thousand square meters and provides over 1.5 Mwh of electrical energy per day to three rural villages..." (http://www.islamonline.net/English/Science/2002/05/article10.shtml) Principal Investigator(s) Information: Pawan Gupta E-mail: Pawan.Gupta@nasa.gov Code 618 Building 33 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt,MD 20771 USA Ph: 256-961-7913 Fax: 1-301-614-6695 Elena Lind E-mail: Elena.Lind@nasa.gov Code 618, Building 33 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt,MD 20771 USA Ph: 301-614-0362 Fax: 1-301-614-6695 Site Manager(s) Information: Steve Wilcox Email: Stephen_Wilcox@nrel.gov Steve Wilcox National Renewable Energy Laboratory 16253 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401-3393 voice: 1-303-384-7785; fax: 1-303-384-6391 Please put a sticker on the outside of the box that says "Non-NREL Equipment" to expedite delivery. AND Adel Saad Alshihiween Email: ashehewen@kacst.edu.sa Adel Saad Alshihiween Energy Research Institute King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KACST P. O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Email: ashehewen@kacst.edu.sa AND Abdulrahman Alsaferan Email: asaferan@kacst.edu.sa Abdulrahman Alsaferan Energy Research Institute King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KACST P. O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Email: asaferan@kacst.edu.sa Responsible Institution(s): NASA'S AERONET http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology http://www.kacst.edu.sa National Renewable Energy Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/

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Image 3 - A panoramic view of the Solar Village
Image 4 - View of the sunphotometer.

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