Commercial PV is an appealing way to reduce electricity costs, however due to the variable nature of PV power and the larger power needs of most commercial applications, demand charges induced by variable load and PV generation can offset savings of generating electricity on site. This paper will explore options to reduce these demand charge costs through forecast improvements by downscaling varia...Show More
Siting a solar power plant requires accurate information on the historic solar resource to determine the ideal location and assure that the project will be financially sound. This paper compares the existing and popular method of using a Typical GHI Year (TGY) as a form of historic solar resource assessment, against the method of Typical Power Year.Show More
In this article, we present a state-of-the-art longtern energy prediction methodology to minimize risk in the project investment. We applied the algorithm to the SolarAnywhere data over 19 years period. he algorithm systematically creates synthetic years from the period of dataset to draw distribution that best describes the data. We conducted the experiment for projects under different climatic c...Show More
In this paper we address the use of satellite-based irradiance data as a proxy for the ground irradiance data to determine the intraday solar variability as a function of a finite difference of hourly clear sky index, here after called nominal variability. The satellite data based nominal variability is compared to that of the ground data based variability to determine the use of satellite data as...Show More
