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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2012
Sunpower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Batten, Tualatin, OR (US);
Ravindranath Naiknaware, Portland, OR (US);
SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of determining whether service is needed on a solar array includes gathering current data with regard to current solar array performance and environmental conditions, collecting weather data, accessing a storage for historical performance data, using the current data, weather data and historical data to generate a predicted performance, comparing the predicted performance to the current solar array performance data to determine if service is needed and generate comparison data, and analyzing the comparison data to determine a type of service needed, if service is needed.