US Patent Issued to CLEAN POWER RESEARCH on March 4 for "System and method for estimating photovoltaic energy through empirical derivation with the aid of a digital computer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,022, issued on March 4, was assigned to CLEAN POWER RESEARCH LLC (Napa, Calif.).

"System and method for estimating photovoltaic energy through empirical derivation with the aid of a digital computer" was invented by Thomas E. Hoff (Napa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The accuracy of photovoltaic simulation modeling is predicated upon the selection of a type of solar resource data appropriate to the form of simulation desired. Photovoltaic power simulation requires irradiance data. Photovoltaic energy simulation requires normalized irradiation data. Normalized irradiation is not always available, such as in photovoltaic plant ...