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Blue skies & satellites

Weather monitoring: The impact of weather on solar power arrays can be substantial, once the effects of clouds, dust, pollution, wind, humidity, rain, snow, and hail are added together. As the solar industry matures, more attention is being paid to monitoring such weather factors, for use in both performance analytics and in maintenance assessments.

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Charles W. Thurston

04 Nov 2016

“The U.S. market for weather forecasting will increase tremendously in the next few years, as it already has in Europe,” says Daniel Faltermeier, Managing Director of Meteocontrol North America, based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. “What we saw there was a demand for user power control for credits, similar to what we are seeing with RECs …

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