Gridded Renewables Nowcasting Demonstration over South Australia

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Solcast will develop a proof of concept demonstration of a forecasting tool which will track and predict renewable energy output over South Australia in real time.Key resultsSolcast developed a proof of concept demonstration of a forecasting tool which tracks and predicts renewable energy output over South Australia in real time. Forecasting renewable energy generator outputs is difficult due to their variable output being dictated by the availability of sun and wind.Using high-resolution rapidly updating satellite data, and real-time ground observations, the forecasts produced in the ‘Nowcasting’ Project demonstrated lower error than existing forecast methodologies. The ‘Nowcasting’ methodology is anticipated to increase in value as higher penetrations of variable renewable energy enter the generation mix.

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