US Patent Issued to 1st Avenue Nova on June 23 for "Solar forecasting for networked power plants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,545, issued on June 23, was assigned to 1st Avenue Nova LLC (Los Angeles).

"Solar forecasting for networked power plants" was invented by Lukas Hansen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Gautham Ramesh (San Francisco) and Thomas Buttgenbach (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining irradiance data at a first time and a second time from sensors, determining whether one or more solar modules of a plurality of networked power plants will be covered by a shadow or shade at a third time based on the irradiance data, and generating, based on the determination, a power output prediction for each power plant of the ne...