Mini-project
Energy, Power & Utilities
Solar plant performance study
Study with statistics how sunlight, temperature and soiling affect a solar plant's output.
The brief
A solar plant's owner sees output fall on some days and does not know why. Analyse plant and weather data to show how irradiation and module temperature affect output, find inverters that underperform, and test whether the differences are real. Good looks like: performance ratios per inverter, correct tests, and clear charts for the plant manager.
What you will build
- Join generation and weather sensor data
- Calculate performance ratio per inverter
- Relate output to irradiation and temperature
- Test which inverters underperform
- Report likely causes such as soiling or faults
Free, open data to build it with
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