First Solar’s PlantPredict: a solar energy modelling tool, Source by PV Europe, 3 January 2018
First Solar’s PlantPredict: a solar energy modelling tool, PV Europe, 3 January 2018 PlantPredict from First Solar reduces uncertainty to generate more accurate energy predictions for utility scale PV plants. First Solar added a new 3-D DC Field visualization tool. PlantPredict from First Solar is designed to develop energy estimates applications. The Version 5 was released in November 2017 and includes several new features. Most notable of the new features is batch processing capability, which allows users to run up to 350 predictions at once while varying DC/AC, azimuth, tilt angle or GCR between runs. First Solar also released a publicly available international data source from NASA-SSE. PlantPredict offers users the option to import plane-of-array irradiance (POAI) in weather files. This is a tool for users who have measured or…