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As solar becomes more integrated into electric transmission and distribution systems, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office has issued a request for information (RFI) to inform its strategic planning efforts. This RFI seeks insights about predicting how much solar irradiance, or energy from the sun, reaches the earth’s surface and the amount of power output from solar generation plants using photovoltaic (PV) or concentrating solar-thermal power technologies.
These prediction capabilities will help grid operators as they consider the impacts of solar power variability on grid planning and operations, as well as owners and operators of utility-scale plants and aggregators of distributed PV systems.
Questions in the RFI fall under the following broad categories:
- Solar power prediction
- Solar irradiance prediction
- Model evaluation and validation
Please email your responses as Microsoft Word attachments to SETO.RFI.SI@ee.doe.gov by February 29, 2020, at 12:00 p.m. ET. Download the RFI for more details.
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