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108 Clean Water Using Solar and Wind: Outside the Power Grid thumb for eastern India is that a solar array of 1 kWp can provide sufficient power for a 1 hp (0.74 kW) solar pump. Example 8.4: Small-Scale Solar PV for Desalination, Jordan This solar PV desalination plant is in Jordan and is designed to produce fresh water from brackish water, as reported by Hoffman (2017a). The plant delivers 95 kWh per day to produce 22 m3 of fresh water from 37 m3 of brackish water. This gives an energy requirement of 95/22 = 4.3 kWh/m3 to produce fresh water (compare 5.3.5). 8.6 FURTHER READING Varadi et  al. (2018), Chapter 2, present a pedagogic introduction to solar power technologies. An easy-reading introduction to the various technologies is also found in WEC (2016, Chapter 8). Goswani (2015) contains a comprehensive description of major developments in solar energy. A case study on rural electrification in Papua New Guinea is presented by Kaur and Segal (2017). White (2014) is an easy-read introduction into solar PV, while White (2016) is a comprehensive text on solar PV and installation. ABB has published an ambitious technical application paper on solar PV systems (ABB, 2018) that explains their principles, connection, mounting and economy. SAM (System Advisor Model) is a detailed performance and financial modelling tool for solar and wind energy applications (https:// sam.nrel.gov/). SAM is based on computer models developed at NREL, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Wisconsin and other organisations. SAM bases its calculations on an extensive and freely available database of meteorological and climate data for several locations worldwide. It provides the dynamic operation profile, on an hourly basis, of solar thermal generation, solar PV generation and wind energy and can therefore support the simulation of load performance of e.g. desalination systems. SAM contains online databases for both solar PV and wind: the NREL National Solar Radiation Database for solar resource data and ambient weather conditions as well as the NREL WIND Toolkit for wind resource data. The site PV Education Network (http://pveducation.org), developed by Christiana Honsberg and Stuart Bowden at Solar Power Labs Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/520710/wio9781780409443.pdf by IWA Publishing user