Heather Van Schoiack | Apr 21, 2012
This paper summarizes the deployment of a 71 station solar monitoring network in Sacramento, Calif., and its use in validating solar forecasts and solar resource variability for high penetrations of solar on the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) grid. The...
Heather Van Schoiack | Apr 2, 2012
In April 2010, Clean Power Research received a California Solar Initiative (CSI) Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Program (RD&D) Solicitation 1 grant for a project titled, “Advanced Modeling and Verification for High Penetration PV.” The project...
Heather Van Schoiack | Mar 14, 2012
This article presents an experimental evaluation of the combined effective capacity of off-shore wind and PV generation using the city of New York as a test case. Download PDF >>>
Heather Van Schoiack | Mar 14, 2012
This article evaluates the ability of three operational satellite models (SolarAnywhere® Standard, Enhanced, and High Resolution) to predict ground-based measured irradiance conditions. Results suggest that the performance of satellite-based monitoring approaches that...
Heather Van Schoiack | Mar 8, 2012
Metrics used in assessing irradiance model accuracy such as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) are precisely defined. Their relative (%) counterpart, however, can be subject to interpretation and may cover a wide range of values for a given...
