Forecasting approach aimed at improving revenue, making solar more grid-friendly
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 06:10
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Penn State's GridSTAR Center and multiple industry partners will be exploring and demonstrating an innovative and collaborative approach to improve the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. By using weather data and images of the sky to "train" a control system to operate solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems, the variability of a solar system's output will be "smoothed" and, at the same time, responsive to variations in the price of electricity throughout the day.