Abstract
The Sahara Solar Breeder (SSB) project is a joint Japanese-Algerian universities project to utilise the plentiful sand and solar energy in the Sahara desert. In the context of the SSB project, a Sahara Solar Energy Research Center was created at the University of Saida in Algeria. This centre is equipped with the meteorological monitoring system, the outside photovoltaic panels evaluation systems and the underground temperature measurement system. In this paper, a description of these types of equipment of this centre is presented. Also, some important data such as irradiance, temperature, energy, I–V curves and underground temperature measurement are presented and analysed. Finally, a discussion on the usefulness of these data for the SSB project will be discussed.
 Keywords: Sahara Solar Breeder project, solar irradiation, air temperature, underground temperature, PV module, I–V curve
Highlights
The idea of the Sahara Solar Breeder (SSB) project consists of constructing industrial plants in the Sahara desert that would extract silica from the sand and use it to produce photovoltaic panels
The principal object of this project is to construct sufficient plants until the breeding plan can deliver 100 GW of electricity to supply 50% of the world’s electrical demand by 2,050. This energy will be delivered via an High Temperature Superconductor (HTSC) cable to transport the produced DC current electricity over 500 km (Koinuma, Tsubouchi, Itaka & Stambouli, 2013; Miloud, Miloudi & Mostefai, 2011; Miloud, Miloudi & Mostefai, 2014a; ssb-foundation; Stambouli, Khiat, Flazi & Kitamura, 2012)
This research centre is equipped with the necessary facilities to carry out this project such as the meteorological monitoring system, the outside photovoltaic panels evaluation system and the underground temperature measurement system
Summary
The idea of the Sahara Solar Breeder (SSB) project consists of constructing industrial plants in the Sahara desert that would extract silica from the sand and use it to produce photovoltaic panels. The principal object of this project is to construct sufficient plants until the breeding plan can deliver 100 GW of electricity to supply 50% of the world’s electrical demand by 2,050 This energy will be delivered via an High Temperature Superconductor (HTSC) cable to transport the produced DC current electricity over 500 km (Koinuma, Tsubouchi, Itaka & Stambouli, 2013; Miloud, Miloudi & Mostefai, 2011; Miloud, Miloudi & Mostefai, 2014a; ssb-foundation; Stambouli, Khiat, Flazi & Kitamura, 2012). We conclude with an analysis of these data that will affect installation of photovoltaic systems, and the usefulness of these data for the SSB project will be discussed
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