METHODS FOR ORIENTATION AND TILT IDENTIFICATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS AND SOLAR IRRADIANCE SENSORS

摘要

The present invention relates to methods and systems for identifying PV system and solar irradiance sensor orientation and tilt based on energy production, energy received, simulated energy production, estimated energy received, production skew, and energy received skew. The present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting orientation and tilt of a PV system based on energy production and simulated energy production; for detecting the orientation and tilt of a solar irradiance sensor based on solar irradiance observation and simulated solar irradiance observation; for detecting orientation of a PV system based on energy production and energy production skew; and for detecting orientation of a solar irradiance sensor based on solar irradiance observation and solar irradiance observation skew.

主权项

1. A computer processor implemented method of identifying the orientation and tilt of a renewable energy system, said method comprising the steps of;
providing a set of renewable energy systems having at least two renewable energy systems each having an orientation and tilt angle pair to provide a set of orientation and tilt known renewable energy systems in a computer processor; determining environmental conditions for each of the orientation and tilt known renewable energy systems to provide environmental conditions at each orientation and tilt known renewable energy system in a computer processor; determining simulated production data by a computer processor based on said environmental conditions at each orientation and tilt angle pair to provide simulated production data for each orientation and tilt angle pair known renewable energy system; storing the orientation and tilt angle pair and simulated production data in a computer processor; providing at least one orientation and tilt unknown renewable energy system in a computer processor; calculating by said computer processor a correlation for each orientation and tilt unknown renewable energy systems production data to said simulated production data for each orientation and tilt angle pair known renewable energy systems; setting said orientation and tilt for said orientation and tilt unknown renewable energy systems to the most correlated orientation and tilt known renewable energy systems to become a correlated simulated orientation and tilt known renewable energy systems that is part of the set of renewable energy systems having at least two renewable energy systems each having an orientation and tilt angle pair in said computer processor.