Identifying, Quantifying, and Analyzing Behind-the-Meter Renewables

For years, the need to identify certain energy generating infrastructure has not been necessary for the energy weather community. With standard fossil fuel power plants being known and outputting a relatively predictable and steady amount of power onto the grid on a daily basis, noteworthy surprises were difficult to come by. However, with the advent of increased renewable power, particularly rooftop solar installations and potentially small, private wind turbines, the need to know how much electricity they produce will continue to increase. While utilities typically have this information, regional transmission operators (RTOs), power traders, and others do not. With the combination of geospatial weather and remote sensing expertise, Radiant Solutions is looking to solve this issue by limiting the uncertainty of these behind-the-meter renewables readings. By conducting a satellite-based feature detection over an area of interest to quantify the behind-the-meter infrastructure and combining it with solar radiation and wind observations, Radiant can provide estimated power output history and forecasts. Utilizing this information for operations would ultimately ease the large amount of uncertainty for entities that depend on a reliable power output model.