Version control: Your bankable signpost in a digital world

Version control: Your bankable signpost in a digital world

Mark Liffmann | Aug 4, 2016

If you own an iPhone, you’ve seen the familiar message “iOS 9.3.3 is available for your iPhone and is ready to install.” If you’re like me, you hit “Remind me later” a few dozen times before you actually install the update. Call me paranoid, but I always have to take...
Solar Power International 2015: Solar in Disneyland

Solar Power International 2015: Solar in Disneyland

Tom Staples | Oct 8, 2015

Disneyland provided the backdrop for the Solar Power International (SPI) conference in Anaheim this year. As the biggest solar-focused conference in the U.S., exhibiting at SPI provides a great opportunity to find out firsthand what is on the mind of the industry—that...
UVIG technical achievement award presented to Tom Hoff

UVIG technical achievement award presented to Tom Hoff

Jeff Ressler | Apr 27, 2015

Last week, the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) recognized Tom Hoff, Clean Power Research founder and president of Research and Consulting, with an award for his ongoing contributions to solar forecasting. The ability to forecast the output of tens...
Solar forecasting goes “EPIC”

Solar forecasting goes “EPIC”

Skip Dise | Jan 22, 2015

Itron and Clean Power Research are embarking on the next phase of research that will lead to high-fidelity distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) forecasts, and integration of those forecasts into net load forecasts for the California Independent System Operator (ISO)....