Head of Solar Energy & Climatology Unit, Meteotest,
Switzerland.
Mr. Jan Remund, Head of Solar Energy & Climatology Unit, Meteotest, Switzerland.
Biography
Mr. Jan Remund is working at the private company Meteotest AG in Bern Switzerland since 1993. He is head of solar energy & climatology unit and holds a master degree in nature science (geography) from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
He is a specialist in solar resource assessments, but worked also in other fields like wind energy resource mapping or weather forecast. His main project is the global climatological database Meteonorm (www.meteonorm.com), which was initiated by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. He is the main author of the project since 1995 and responsible for modelling, programming as well as for marketing aspects.
Jan’s main scientific international projects were EU FP5 Project SoDa (2000-2003), IEA PVPS Task 16 (2017-), EU FP7 DNICast (2014-2018) and Horizon 2020 climate-fit.city (2017-2020). Jan leads the IEA PVPS Task 16 as operating agent since 2017.
Jan Remund worked also in the field of grid integration of renewables including the calculation of 100% renewables scenarios in Switzerland. Other main topics are the calculation of drought indices for forest planning (historic data and future IPCC scenarios, downscaling of high resolution models), modelling and measuring of specific irradiation data for photodynamic therapy and modelling urban heat island effects.