Featured in Contactless prowess – 06-2011

No more flying blind

Yield forecasts: Recently experts have been able to precisely predict just how much solar electricity transmission system operators will be able to reckon with the next day. This represents an important step toward better integration of photovoltaic plants into the electricity grid.

One day in September of the year 2010, a malfunction almost occurred. Not a single cloud was to be seen over the rooftops in Germany. The solar power plants operated at full capacity and the operators had every reason to be satisfied. If it were not for a certain problem: on the day before, the …

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