Featured in Go big or go home – 11-2020

Capturing complexity through the power of the cloud

Bifacial modules have brought significant opportunities to PV project developers, but they have also increased complexity in system design and the modeling of plant output. Australian software developers PV Lighthouse believe they have created a fix, by allowing the complexity to be handled by the use of cloud computing. PV Lighthouse CEO Keith McIntosh and CCO Ben Sudbury argue that their software can be useful for module makers, tracker suppliers, and PV project developers alike.

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Jonathan Gifford

02 Nov 2020

Image: PV Lighthouse

How would you describe the challenge for modeling bifacial and tracking systems? Keith McIntosh (KM): As you know there are plenty of software packages that can simulate a system. And they do that well enough on a broad level. But what they miss out are the details, and those details are much more important for …

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