Vid senast mötet i Juni 2005 beslutades bland annat att påbörja ett projekt kring ”Solar Resource Knowledge Management”. Projektets syfte är: to provide further standardization, better data reliability and availability, and improved spatial and temporal coverage, with customized solar resource products, including reliable solar radiation forecasts that are easily accessible to industry. Achieving these objectives would reduce the cost of planning and deploying solar energy systems, improve efficiency of solar energy systems by more accurate and complete solar resource information, and increase the value of the solar energy produced by solar systems. This objective will be met by accomplishing three subtasks:
• Standardization of solar resource products to insure worldwide intercomparability and acceptance;
• Development of a common structure for archiving, processing and accessing solar resource information, such as through a single portal;
• Improved techniques for solar resource characterization and forecasting