Skip to content

What Solar Professionals need to know: Use site-level weather data to solve power loss problems.

Typical utility-scale PV installation.

An improved power forecast can be achieved when performance analysis of a PV plant starts to account for losses due to localised weather conditions. Elements such as air temperature, wind speed, humidity and rainfall are all known to affect solar plant efficiency.

Our offer: 
National or regional weather predictions cannot be solely relied on for site specific solar tracking power forecasts or high wind safety settings. We offer a MetPak Pro weather platform and MaxiMet compact weather stations for monitoring in real-time the weather parameters that are known to affect PV performance.

Next week we will be exhibiting at Solar Power international 2019, join us on our booth #5450 from 23-26th September 2019.  Dan Armistead, our Technical Support Engineer and our Business Development Managers, John Crilly and Shaun Mason, will be presenting our MetPak Pro multi-sensor weather platform,  MaxiMet GMX541, along with ultrasonic wind measurement products and accessories.

If you are not able to make the show or would like to find out more about our solar product range beforehand, visit our new solar microsite gillinstruments.com/solar

Dan Armistead (left), Shaun Mason (middle) and John Crilly (right).

RECOMMENDED POSTS

18/09/2023

Fantastic achievement by Saildrone to gain a Guiness World Record for the highest wind speed recorded by a USV. We're very proud to say they chose a Gill WindMaster 3-axis ultrasonic anemometer as part of their Saildrone platform to measure wind speed and direction.

18/08/2023

We are very pleased to announce that Gill Group has been shortlisted in the Supply Chain Excellence category of the Manufacturer MX Awards 2023!

09/06/2023

Introducing WindUltra – a step forward in compact, high quality, ultrasonic wind sensing

13/04/2023

Introducing the MaxiMet Marine weather station from Gill Instruments. Accurate and reliable data for a range of marine applications.

08/03/2023

New Gill MaxiMet compact weather stations brochure

22/02/2023

Dust storms have an enormous impact both locally but also travel across continents. Many originate from the empty quarter desert stretching across the Arabian peninsula, the world’s largest sand desert.

13/10/2022

The Gill team have had a great time at Meteorological Technology World Expo, meeting up with our distributors and partners.…

26/09/2022

One of Saildrone's unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is collecting critical ocean data from within Hurricane Fiona (Category 4 storm) -…

23/09/2022

For a summary of the latest range please see the Gill Instruments Product Catalogue - Anemometers & Weather Stations.

02/09/2022

Most advanced unmanned, wave-powered research vessel operating in UK waters (AutoNaut) contains an array of sensors making scientific measurements both…