3. Input Information

You are what you eat!

“You are what you eat”. Like food gets digested by our bodies to provide us nutrition, input data gets processed by PV Plant modelling software to provide power production estimates. No matter how sound the processing model (digestive system), the results produced are only as good as the data (food) provided.

• 3.1. Weather Data
  • 3.1.1. About Weather Data
    • 3.1.1.1. Position of the Sun
    • 3.1.1.2. DNI, DHI and GHI
    • 3.1.1.3. Capacity Factor
    • 3.1.1.4. Weather Data Providers and Sources
      • 3.1.1.4.1. Ground Weather Stations
      • 3.1.1.4.2. Satellite Data
      • 3.1.1.4.3. Reanalysed Data
    • 3.1.1.5. Types of Weather Data
      • 3.1.1.5.1. Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) Data
      • 3.1.1.5.2. Multi-year Time-series Data
      • 3.1.1.5.3. Theoretical Clearsky Model
    • 3.1.1.6. Accuracy of Data
    • 3.1.1.7. Concluding remarks
• 3.2. Energy Consumption Records
  • 3.2.1. Smart Meter Logs
  • 3.2.2. Billing Records
• 3.3. Energy Billing Records
• 3.4. Energy Rates
• 3.5. Proposed PV System Parameters
• 3.6. Proposed ESS Parameters
• 3.7. Proposed EMS Parameters
• 3.8. Proposed Genset Parameters
• 3.9. Proposed PV Plant Capex
• 3.10. Proposed PV Plant Opex
• 3.11. Projected Energy Consumption
• 3.12. Projected Supply Outages
• 3.13. Projected Financial Parameters