General Electric Company

Christian Heller

Mark Ronald Lynass

Michael Schmidt

Ralph Teichmann

Simon Herbert Schramm

Kathleen Ann O'Brien

Owen Jannis Schelenz

Said Farouk El-Barbari

Apparatus and method, as may be used to acquire different components of solar irradiance in a solar-based power generation system or as may be used in a sky imager, are provided. A filter matrix () may be arranged to receive incident solar irradiance. The filter matrix may include an array of pixels () controllable to selectively acquire different components of the solar irradiance. A module, such as a photosensor () or calculator module () may be configured to determine a spatial location of at least one of the irradiance components relative to the array of pixels of the filter matrix. A controller () may be electrically coupled to the module to supply a control signal to the filter matrix based on the determined location of the irradiance component to pass a selected one of the irradiance components.

Apparatus having a controllable filter matrix to selectively acquire different components of solar irradiance

A power generation system () for generating electrical power, which may vary in response to one or more weather-varying factors (). The system may include an array of power generators () subject to the weather-varying factor. A module () may be configured to predict over a time horizon at least one power-generating condition for the array of power generators. A controller () may be configured to anticipatorily adjust a control strategy regarding operation of a component and/or subsystem of the power generation system based on the predicted power-generating condition for the array of power generators over the time horizon.

Power generation system including predictive control apparatus to reduce influences of weather-varying factors

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Bavaria, Germany

Christian Heller