Solar Energy Forecasting
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Aspects of solar energy forecasting are described herein. In one embodiment, a method of solar energy forecasting includes masking at least one sky image to provide at least one masked sky image, where the at least one sky image includes an image of at least one cloud captured by a sky imaging device. The method further includes geometrically transforming the at least one masked sky image to at least one flat sky image based on a cloud base height of the at least one cloud. Once the cloud is identified, the motion of the at least one cloud may be determined over time. Rays of solar irradiance can be traced using the identified clouds and cloud motion and a solar energy forecast generated by ray tracing the irradiance of the sun upon a geographic location according to the motion of the at least one cloud.
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