CSP100 Concentrated-Solar-Power Monitoring Package

The CSP100 is a turn-key automated data-acquisition system specifically designed to meet CAISO meteorological station requirements of concentrated-solar-power generating facilities. It is recommended for assessing power-plant performance, which requires the best possible solar resource measurements. 

The CSP100 is field-ready, with features to minimize installation time and field wiring errors. Though offered as a turn-key package, nearly every aspect of the system is customizable, including sensors, communications, mounting, and power supply. 

Benefits and Features 

• • Contains a Campbell Scientific CR1000 Measurement and Control Datalogger 
  • Provides the lowest uncertainty of the GH, DNI, and DIFF solar radiation measurements 
  • Fast to field with industry-proven, high-accuracy sensors 
  • Factory fabrication, programming, and testing minimizes field wiring errors and reduces deployment time 
  • Meets CAISO required meteorological data points 
  • Approved California ISO Remote Intelligent Gateway (RIG) for secure encrypted information transmission to CAISO 
  • Complies with Modbus, DNP3, CANbus, and PakBus protocols 
  • Supports nearly all communication technologies such as RS-485, fiber, TCP/IP, cellular, or satellite 
  • Reference design: “Solar Resource and Meteorological Project (SOLRMAP)”, NREL 

• • Provides a modular, programmable, and customizable system 
  • Provides a battery back system that allows data collection during power outages and network failure 
  • Acts as single point data gateway for environmental, inverter, and meter data 
  • Supports TCP/IP functionality, including: HTTP Get, HTTP Post, FTP server and client, TelNet server, PING, Micro serial server, DHCP client, DNS client, email send and receive 
  • Supports Web Service API 
  • Supports individual module and string level power measurements 
  • Shipped with a quick-deploy installation guide and system schematics