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...
Heather Van Schoiack | Feb 8, 2012
This presentation provides the results of a study evaluating the short, medium and long-term accuracy of irradiance data derived from satellite imagery to measured data from CAISO. The research was presented at a Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG)...
