Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Clockwise from left) Brookhaven Lab Environmental and Climate Sciences Department (ECSD) Chair Allison McComiskey, consultant Dong Huang, Stony Brook University graduate student Chenxiao Xu, ECSD technician Gabriel Vignato, ECSD electronics engineer Andrew McMahon, project engineer Thomas McEvaddy of Brookhaven's Modernization Project Office, ECSD computational scientist Richard Wagener, and Brookhaven Meteorological Services Group Leader John Heiser are part of the team that contributed to the development of the newly installed solar base station seen above. Located on an elevated platform on the roof of a Brookhaven Lab building, the station is equipped with instruments for measuring the amount of energy coming from the sun and atmosphere. Utilities need such measurements to improve solar energy forecasting to maintain the stability of the power grid and to efficiently allocate energy resources.