Featured in High time for a masterplan – 06-2023

Trust the forecast

Trust-PV is a four-year, EU-funded project featuring 21 solar value chain partners who aim to improve the performance of PV projects. French business Reuniwatt has published the ‘Forecasting for advanced operational stability’ study to improve stability at the point of grid connection. Marion Lafuma, business development manager for Reuniwatt, looks at its key findings.
Eurac is working on models to integrate numerical weather prediction into day-ahead energy yield forecasts for solar projects. | Photo: M. Berliocchi/EURAC

Improving the accuracy of energy yield forecasts will help PV projects to inject lots of electricity into European grids. The Trust-PV project has been investigating forecasting approaches at different time horizons within four subtasks.The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), an R&D body in Leuven, Belgium, has worked on short-term forecasting using affordable sky cameras, neural network …

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