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SolarAnywhere® Version 4.0 irradiance model launches with extreme weather insights
SolarAnywhere customers have plenty to be excited about with this year’s release of Historical Data Version 4.0 (V4.0). Alongside substantial model enhancements that have reduced global data uncertainty, we’ve introduced a new data portal UX/UI with Map Overlay...
Advancing utility solutions at DISTRIBUTECH 2025
Announcing AI capabilities, FleetView® and new partner integrations ahead of DISTRIBUTECH 2025 As global beneficial electrification accelerates, utilities and their tools must continually adapt. The US Department of Energy is explicitly encouraging utilities to...
PowerClerk API integration with Python
PowerClerk® API Integrations using Python can improve the efficiency of any PowerClerk program. Connecting digital systems to share data will reduce mismatches, errors, and improve accuracy. Automating review processes, updating results from inspections, or work order...
Enabling better planning and operations with behind-the-meter DER insights from FleetView
Electric utilities are facing unprecedented challenges as the rapid growth of behind-the-meter (BTM) distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV and electric vehicles redefine the requirements to plan, operate and maintain a reliable grid. The use of...
New SolarAnywhere® monitoring API (beta) joins across-the-board API performance enhancements
Clean Power Research® is excited to announce the public beta release of our new SolarAnywhere monitoring API, designed to provide you with scalable, seamless and efficient access to real-time data. This new, synchronous API supports fast and reliable data...
The role of business process automation in DER interconnection processes
DER interconnection is a complex process with many players, but software providers are uniquely positioned to transform it with automation and innovation. As outlined in the recent DOE Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Roadmap, the utility industry is...
Unlock the power of real-time solar data: New SolarAnywhere® dashboard
Clean Power Research® is excited to unlock the power of real-time solar data for more users with the launch of the SolarAnywhere® SystemCheck® Monitoring Dashboard. Users can now access and visualize SystemCheck real-time irradiance data directly...
WattPlan® helps 1 million utility and energy agency customers make smart energy choices
WattPlan has now helped more than 1 million utility customers make informed decisions about their renewable energy, rate plan and clean transportation options. This is a significant milestone for WattPlan, a leading utility solution for automated clean energy and...
2024: Broader and deeper with utilities and their programs
On behalf of the entire team at Clean Power Research, I wish our utility and energy agency customers a happy New Year and thank you for a great 2024! In my year-end review for 2023, I mentioned that we were excited to have reached two new milestones: 14 of the top 15...
Ensuring Transparent Information for Consumers in Home Energy Upgrade Programs
During the White House Consumer Convening in D.C. earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a voluntary "Consumer Bill of Rights" framework for States to incorporate into their upcoming Home Energy Rebate programs. The framework outlines 12 key...
PowerClerk Innovates, Surpasses Two Million Interconnection Projects
The intelligent and coordinated integration of renewable energy projects into power grids is critical for ensuring grid resiliency. Unfortunately, the process of interconnecting these projects is often hindered by disjointed, outdated processes that don’t scale to...
Leading electric utilities choose Clean Power Research
Clean Power Research is honored to take a leading role in utility and energy agency digitalization initiatives On behalf of the entire team at Clean Power Research, I wish our utility and energy agency customers a Happy New Year and thank you for a great 2023. We’re...
Case Study: APS implements PowerClerk® to enable efficient, flexible FERC generator interconnection management
Arizona Public Service (APS) experienced a surge in FERC Large Generator Interconnection applications, due to a growing demand for siting renewable energy projects in Arizona. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has stringent requirements for connecting...
More than 65 utilities trust Clean Power Research to accelerate their energy transformation
In 2019, Clean Power Research reached a milestone when we reported that all Top 10 U.S. utilities relied on one or more of our products to support their energy transformation efforts. In 2021, we witnessed a step change by our utility customers as the tempo of the...
Leveraging utility trusted advisor status to drive EV growth and grid reliability
The electric vehicle (EV) market continues to sizzle across the country, setting a record for quarterly sales in Q1 and Q2 of 2021. Through April 2021, EV sales were up 130 percent over 2020, and exceeded 2019 sales by 75 percent. Utilities have recognized the...
Deployment of utility COVID-19 relief program using PowerClerk®
A Case Study from CLEAResult & Liberty Utilities While coverage of COVID-19 continues to dominate the daily news cycle, new information on the economic challenges facing utilities and their customers continues to emerge. In times like these, many companies are...
Working from home? PowerClerk delivers for utilities and their customers
This post explains how to extract maximum value from PowerClerk® in “work from home” situations and outlines a new offer for utilities and energy agencies to use PowerClerk at no cost on COVID-19-related programs. Working from home with no compromises With the broad...
All top 10 U.S. utilities trust Clean Power Research
At Clean Power Research, we think of ourselves as a modestly sized company doing big work. We are a passionate team of engineers, scientists and customer-obsessed service professionals focused on delivering world-class software solutions to utilities and the solar...
Demystifying battery storage for residential energy customers: solar self-consumption (Part 2)
Grid-connected battery storage is an exciting, new and rather mysterious technology. This blog is the second in a series that will help equip utilities to demystify battery storage for their residential customers. The first blog post discussed ways residential...
Video: Residential electrification with a Solar+ home (real-life example)
What can a typical residential customer that doesn’t live in a new home do to address greenhouse gas emissions? Electrification of energy consuming activities such as transportation, space and water heating, lighting and refrigeration is an affordable option—even for...
Demystifying battery storage for residential energy customers: an overview (Part 1)
Grid-connected battery storage is an exciting, new and rather mysterious technology. The press is particularly interested in the solar + storage technology bundle. Headlines declare how inexpensive it is to bundle PV with batteries. Some articles even suggest that an...
Change is a constant: why agile software development fits today’s utility
As a developer of software for utility companies, we're frequently asked for information about integrating PowerClerk®, WattPlan® and SolarAnywhere® into utility processes. Often these requests include long lists of questions about product features and pricing, as...
A better way for utilities to forecast DER adoption
Since the Great Recession, utility planners have consistently over forecasted peak and total load. Econometric models used in the past are failing: energy efficiency continues to decouple load growth from Gross Domestic Product and customer energy habits are changing....
New SolarAnywhere PXX Data Streamline Probability of Exceedance Energy Calculations
Until now, SolarAnywhere® has offered two types of data: time-series and typical year (TGY). Today we’ve added a third option, probability of exceedance, or PXX for short. The “XX” refers to the probability that the level of irradiance will be exceeded in a given...
Solar+ home proven: a milestone reached
This article is a follow-on to Clean Power Research’s 11-part series on Solar+ homes series. Solar+ homes describes how homeowners can combine simple energy efficiency measures, solar PV, electric vehicles (EVs) and appliance electrification to create households that...
Defining DERs: Does it matter that we all seem to have slightly different definitions?
Over the last few years, the term DER has become more and more commonplace in the energy space. Most of us know that this three letter acronym (TLA, get it?) stands for Distributed Energy Resources, but what Distributed Energy Resources are might be a bit fuzzier....
Hot Topics at DistribuTECH 2018: The rise of DERMS, integrated interconnection and DER adoption planning
Every year we’re inspired at DistribuTECH, where in 2018 more than 11,000 participants from over 70 countries gathered in San Antonio to discuss the latest topics on grid modernization. For Clean Power Research and our customers, there was ample evidence that many of...
Investigating variation of soiling and snow loss models using SolarAnywhere® data
Soiling and snow on PV systems can lead to significant annual energy losses, reaching up to 50%1 and 40%2 in certain regions. Our study investigates common models for estimating soiling and snow-related energy impacts. By analyzing these soiling and snow loss models...
SolarAnywhere Data Version 3.8 includes new high latitude irradiance data
Clean Power Research® releases a new SolarAnywhere® data version annually. This year’s update addresses the changing needs of the solar industry as projects expand to more northern, snowy locations with appreciable wind risk by offering new high-latitude irradiance...
2024 Solar Risk Assessment report: Data-driven insights address emerging risks
This sixth annual Solar Risk Assessment (SRA) report is now available, offering deep insights into extreme weather and operational risk, and for the first time, battery energy storage system (BESS) risk. The report is published by kWh Analytics and features articles...
Reduce uncertainty with higher-resolution typical year solar resource data
Typical year irradiance datasets (TGY, TDY) summarize solar resource at a location. This data is generated to reflect the most probable (P50) monthly total irradiance, based on a long history of solar resource. SolarAnywhere calculates typical year data from a maximum...
Case study: BayWA r.e. reduces OPEX by transitioning from aging and obsolete instrumentation to SolarAnywhere®
BayWa r.e. Operations Services LLC provides O&M services for a fleet of ~1 GW of renewable energy assets, both owned by BayWa r.e. and assets of other clients. Services include a real-time comparison of actual to expected, weather-adjusted energy output. This...
Case study: Zeitview ensures advanced energy system inspection quality with SolarAnywhere®
Zeitview (formerly known as DroneBase) is an innovator in the field of aerial energy system inspections. They recently launched North American Solar Scan, a service that provides insight into every solar asset in the U.S. above 1MW.Zeitview utilizes planes and drones...
Case Study: Invenergy Services Drives Operational Excellence with SolarAnywhere®
On-site meteorological stations and site-specific satellite data work together in this case study featuring Invenergy Services.Invenergy Services is a clean energy asset O&M provider that has honed its offerings through 20 years of experience and a portfolio of...
SolarAnywhere® 2023 updates advance modeling accuracy for bifacial, terrain shading and wildfire risk assessment + Postman API documentation
Globally, the cumulative installed capacity of solar PV is set to triple by 2027, accounting for nearly 22% of total power capacity. With this rapid expansion and growth of solar in diverse geographical and climatic regions, solar stakeholders now face unprecedented...
SolarAnywhere® Data accuracy independently validated by Fraunhofer ISE
While weather data is just one of many inputs into PV modeling tools, data accuracy plays a key role in reducing PV project uncertainty and risk. As a result, we frequently are asked “How accurate is SolarAnywhere® Data?” This is a question we take seriously. In fact,...
Getting to the bottom of the EEI and NRDC statement on net metering
The Edison Electric Institute (“EEI”) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (“NRDC”) recently issued a joint statement targeted to state utility regulators “to advance support for utility policies that enhance the electric power grid for the benefit of all...
2014 solar trends episode 1: The Phantom Meter
The New Year is a natural time to take stock of what was and what is to come. This month, we’ll highlight the solar trends we anticipate emerging over the course of 2014. We start today with 2014 solar trends episode 1: The phantom meter. Of course, the battle over...
Minnesota first to develop Value of Solar tariff methodology for use statewide
The Minnesota Department of Commerce Division of Energy Resources (Commerce) has kicked off a stakeholder engagement process that will lead to the development of the methodology of an optional Value of Solar™ tariff for the Minnesota Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs)....
Valuing solar: a matter of perspective
2012 has seen a backlash against distributed generation net metering, particularly solar distributed generation. Most utilities in most states currently have some form of net metering, which is a simple mechanism for assigning a value to distributed generation that is...
Accolades for Austin Energy’s Value of Solar tariff continue
Austin Energy’s innovative approach to compensating distributed solar owners is continuing to receive accolades across the country. In September, Austin Energy received an Innovation Award from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). Earlier in the year Austin...
Austin Energy’s Value of Solar Tariff, a new approach for valuing Distributed Generation (DG)
Austin has long had a reputation as a hip college town with an innovative music scene, but did you now it's a pioneer in the design of electric tariffs for distributed generation (DG)? Yes, it's true. Austin Energy has composed a new tune...and it sounds like an...
Ensuring Transparent Information for Consumers in Home Energy Upgrade Programs
During the White House Consumer Convening in D.C. earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a voluntary "Consumer Bill of Rights" framework for States to incorporate into their upcoming Home Energy Rebate programs. The framework outlines 12 key...
PowerClerk Innovates, Surpasses Two Million Interconnection Projects
The intelligent and coordinated integration of renewable energy projects into power grids is critical for ensuring grid resiliency. Unfortunately, the process of interconnecting these projects is often hindered by disjointed, outdated processes that don’t scale to...
Leading electric utilities choose Clean Power Research
Clean Power Research is honored to take a leading role in utility and energy agency digitalization initiatives On behalf of the entire team at Clean Power Research, I wish our utility and energy agency customers a Happy New Year and thank you for a great 2023. We’re...
Streamlining utility service requests to achieve decarbonization goals
Utilities today are working to achieve decarbonization goals while simultaneously responding to a surge in customer actions such as EV charger installation, new building construction, independent power production and more that lead to service requests. This poses a...
Case Study: JEA drives solar program excellence and resolves backlog with PowerClerk
JEA®, a community-owned utility in Jacksonville, Florida, faced a challenge that resonates with electric utilities and energy agencies big and small: a growing backlog of solar interconnection applications. Manually processing solar interconnection applications led to...
Podcast: Georgia Power expands solar access with innovative energy programs and WattPlan®
It’s energizing to showcase the innovative ways our utility customers like Georgia Power are accelerating the energy transition by expanding customer access to renewable options. Celebrating their efforts isn’t just a joy; it’s a chance to inspire other utilities and...
Case Study: APS implements PowerClerk® to enable efficient, flexible FERC generator interconnection management
Arizona Public Service (APS) experienced a surge in FERC Large Generator Interconnection applications, due to a growing demand for siting renewable energy projects in Arizona. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has stringent requirements for connecting...
Unlocking the power of digitalization: Transforming utility energy programs for success
Digitization vs. digitalization Digitalization is more than a trending buzzword. It’s the next crucial step following “digitization” that utilities are taking to tackle real-world challenges. In fact, the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) recently identified...
Utility best practices to accelerate the deployment of V2X technologies
The topic of accelerating vehicle-to-everything (V2X), which includes vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging systems, has broken out of EV conferences into the real world. Bidirectional charging systems “can discharge from the electric...
Investigating variation of soiling and snow loss models using SolarAnywhere® data
Soiling and snow on PV systems can lead to significant annual energy losses, reaching up to 50%1 and 40%2 in certain regions. Our study investigates common models for estimating soiling and snow-related energy impacts. By analyzing these soiling and snow loss models...
SolarAnywhere Data Version 3.8 includes new high latitude irradiance data
Clean Power Research® releases a new SolarAnywhere® data version annually. This year’s update addresses the changing needs of the solar industry as projects expand to more northern, snowy locations with appreciable wind risk by offering new high-latitude irradiance...
2024 Solar Risk Assessment report: Data-driven insights address emerging risks
This sixth annual Solar Risk Assessment (SRA) report is now available, offering deep insights into extreme weather and operational risk, and for the first time, battery energy storage system (BESS) risk. The report is published by kWh Analytics and features articles...
Reduce uncertainty with higher-resolution typical year solar resource data
Typical year irradiance datasets (TGY, TDY) summarize solar resource at a location. This data is generated to reflect the most probable (P50) monthly total irradiance, based on a long history of solar resource. SolarAnywhere calculates typical year data from a maximum...
Leading electric utilities choose Clean Power Research
Clean Power Research is honored to take a leading role in utility and energy agency digitalization initiatives On behalf of the entire team at Clean Power Research, I wish our utility and energy agency customers a Happy New Year and thank you for a great 2023. We’re...
Case study: BayWA r.e. reduces OPEX by transitioning from aging and obsolete instrumentation to SolarAnywhere®
BayWa r.e. Operations Services LLC provides O&M services for a fleet of ~1 GW of renewable energy assets, both owned by BayWa r.e. and assets of other clients. Services include a real-time comparison of actual to expected, weather-adjusted energy output. This...
Case study: Zeitview ensures advanced energy system inspection quality with SolarAnywhere®
Zeitview (formerly known as DroneBase) is an innovator in the field of aerial energy system inspections. They recently launched North American Solar Scan, a service that provides insight into every solar asset in the U.S. above 1MW.Zeitview utilizes planes and drones...
SolarAnywhere® 2023 updates advance modeling accuracy for bifacial, terrain shading and wildfire risk assessment + Postman API documentation
Globally, the cumulative installed capacity of solar PV is set to triple by 2027, accounting for nearly 22% of total power capacity. With this rapid expansion and growth of solar in diverse geographical and climatic regions, solar stakeholders now face unprecedented...
SolarAnywhere® Data accuracy independently validated by Fraunhofer ISE
While weather data is just one of many inputs into PV modeling tools, data accuracy plays a key role in reducing PV project uncertainty and risk. As a result, we frequently are asked “How accurate is SolarAnywhere® Data?” This is a question we take seriously. In fact,...