Solar panels make fickle utility partners, with intermittent power output that sags and surges with every passing cloud, all of it happening out of sight of utility grid monitoring systems.
As utilities see more and more solar coming onto their grids, they’re going to need some pretty sophisticated modeling and forecasting tools to keep it from getting out of control.
Clean Power Research wants to help make that process a bit easier. The Napa, Calif.-based company has launched the latest version of its SolarAnywhere solar prediction tool.