Marc Perez, Ph.D., Author at SolarAnywhere

How El Niño can help PV asset managers reduce month-ahead irradiance forecast risk

Marc Perez, Ph.D. | Jul 28, 2026

Research into slowly evolving climate patterns may be the key to bridging an important forecasting gap. The missing month Solar forecasting has become remarkably good—provided the forecast is either for the immediate future or for the long term. Modern numerical...

SolarAnywhere® 2023 updates advance modeling accuracy for bifacial, terrain shading and wildfire risk assessment + Postman API documentation

Marc Perez, Ph.D. | Aug 16, 2023

Globally, the cumulative installed capacity of solar PV is set to triple by 2027, accounting for nearly 22% of total power capacity. With this rapid expansion and growth of solar in diverse geographical and climatic regions, solar stakeholders now face unprecedented...

Implicit storage continues to gain support to enable renewables to deliver firm power, cost effectively

Marc Perez, Ph.D. | Aug 17, 2022

With solar and wind providing a greater percentage of electricity, managing the intrinsic intermittency of variable resources is becoming increasingly important. How do we overcome this intermittency? Answering this question has been the focus of an international...

Solar resource trends: Changing cloud-cover and AOD, and implications for PV yield

Marc Perez, Ph.D. | Sep 15, 2020

In recent years, we reported on lower-than-expected solar energy production in the Eastern U.S., corroborating PV plant owner observations using SolarAnywhere® insolation data. This prompted us to ask the questions: How does this recent weather activity compare to...