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Renewable Energy Facility Siting

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CGIT provides site analysis and decision support for large and small scale renewable energy facilities.  Visual inventory analysis and scenic landscape analysis methods can be combined with solar radiation and wind speed models, energy infrastructure, economic, policy, and other criteria to cmopare design alternatives and scenarios.

Solar radiation models calculate global radiation (WH/m^2) from direct, diffuse, and duration components.

Solar Radiation Model
Solar radiation models calculate global radiation (WH/m^2) from direct, diffuse, and duration components.