Solar Prediction Archives - Page 6 of 17

Solar performance monitoring in Europe and South America just got easier with SolarAnywhere real-time data

Patrick Keelin | Feb 4, 2021

Record climate disasters, moderate solar deviations through Q3 2020

Patrick Keelin | Nov 4, 2020

We’re introducing a major upgrade to our SolarAnywhere® solar deviation maps! The new maps expand coverage to three continents and increase resolution to ~50 km. The maps give asset managers and owners high-level insights into the weather trends affecting the...

What’s the value of your solar data? (And why the median approach to solar resource data selection falls short)

Patrick Keelin | Oct 1, 2020

Are the solar industry’s pre-construction production estimates too optimistic? Yes, according to several contributions to the “Solar Risk Assessment: 2020” paper published by kWh Analytics. kWh found evidence of “an industry wide bias towards aggressive predictions,”...

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...

New Solar Risk Assessment report provides data-based insights for the solar industry

Skip Dise | Jun 17, 2020

The latest kWh Analytics “Solar Risk Assessment” report provides solar investors with the latest insights on the evolution of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation risk—and the importance of allowing data-based insights to inform the deployment of capital. This report...

Less coal, sunnier skies increasing solar project value

Patrick Keelin | Apr 2, 2020

In many regions around the world, the skies are getting cleaner thanks to controls on air pollution designed to benefit public health. The Eastern U.S. and Europe have seen dramatic improvements in air quality since the 1980s. Coal plant retirements and stricter...

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