Solar Developers

Orange Button Initiative Takes Aim At Solar Soft Costs

September 2017

September 26, 2017 Solar Industry Orange Button Initiative Takes Aim At Solar Soft Costs

Sunrun and Clean Power Research Receive U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative Award to Develop First Solar Permitting and Interconnection Software Application for Installers

Press Release | November 2015

New Software Will Reduce Time and Costs of Going Solar and Improve Customer Satisfaction SAN FRANCISCO – November 16,...

Behind-the-Meter PV Fleet Forecasting

Research + Solar Prediction | March 2013

Grid-connected PV in the U.S. has grown substantially over the past several years and grid operators are increasingly...

Reporting of Irradiance Model Relative Errors

Research + Solar Prediction | March 2012

Metrics used in assessing irradiance model accuracy such as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error...

Validation of PV Performance Models Using Satellite-based Irradiance Measurements: A Case Study

Research + Solar Prediction | May 2010

This paper presents a study of how PV performance model results are affected when satellite-based weather data is used...

Weather Adjusted Performance Guarantees

Research + Solar Prediction | May 2010

This paper describes how to generate more accurate Weather-Adjusted Performance Guarantees for PV systems using a...

Blog

Feb 28, 2025

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 retrieval to help owners and operators efficiently monitor the performance of their solar assets. Closing the […]

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 from a user interface (UI) dashboard in addition to our trusted API (Application Programming Interface). This feature empowers SolarAnywhere […]

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