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CET(Clean Energy Tools) is a desktop application and netbeans plugin that contains a set of simple tools to help DIYourselfers create small clean energy projects.

CET is developed on the netbeans platform.
http://platform.netbeans.org/
CET is composed of theses modules:
- CETCore (librairies)
- CETSolar
- CETDataAcquisition
Features:
- Update manager
 
CETSolar

The CETSolar module helps the user to calculate how much solar panels or solar cells are needed to power an electrical equipement for x number of hours a day.

Here's a screenshot of what the program looks like:

CETDataAcquisition module
Features:
- Read and send data from a serial device
- Monitor specific data using XML-like syntax (ex: the device would send <temp>23</>)
If you have any comments, questions or would like to participate in this project please go to the contact page to send me a message.

If you are looking for a complete clean energy project analysis software here is one provided by Natural Resources Canada:
RETScreen
http://www.retscreen.net/ 

Downloads:
http://kenai.com/projects/cleanenergytools/downloads/ 

Kenai team project:
http://kenai.com/projects/cleanenergytools/

Near future plans:

• Usage tutorial
• Preparing the project for open source release
• Updating team project website
• Project settings(electricity cost, climate data etc)
• Documentation(formulas used, examples etc)

Future plans:

• Solar tracking types(CETSolar)
• Reflector types(CETSolar)
• Solar potential calculation(CETSolar)
• Splash screen and logos
• Saving project in xml format
• Wind plugin...