HelioScope Energy Performance Modeling Validation: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report

Summary

Financial institutions and municipalities have been reluctant to trust solar energy production models like HelioScope due to a lack of independent validation, often leading to reliance on costly and time-intensive manual methods. This project, a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Folsom Labs and NREL, aimed to validate HelioScope's simulation engine, particularly its shading loss calculations, against measured PV system performance. The research is completed, demonstrating that HelioScope's remote shade modeling accurately estimates site energy potential, potentially reducing soft costs for solar professionals by enabling remote qualification of prospective customers.

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