In August 2022, ARENA published a report sharing ‘The Generator Operations Series – Benchmarking Large-Scale Solar PV Performance in Australia’. This report proposes a method to remotely determine the Performance Ratio (PR) of solar farms using satellite weather data, without needing ground-based measuring equipment. The accuracy of this method is calculated by using it to estimate the PR of all the NEM-connected solar farms, then comparing it to the PR calculated using site data.
Ekistica is the data handler and knowledge sharing agent for ARENA’s LSS portfolio and co-authored the report alongside ARENA and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).
The link to the published report can be found HERE