Update Your Solar Yield Forecast with Heliocity

🌞 Update Your Solar Yield Forecast with Heliocity — A New Feature Focused on Real-World Performance

In the photovoltaic sector, the forecasted yield (P50) plays a key role — it underpins financial models, shapes investor expectations, and guides operational decisions.

But here’s the catch: the P50 is often based on assumptions made before the plant is even commissioned, without considering on-site realities.

So, what if this widely referenced — yet rarely updated — figure became dynamic and performance-driven?

➡️ Heliocity now offers a new feature that updates the expected yield (the well-known P50) of a solar installation based on its actual, observed performance.

🔍 How does it work?

This feature relies on a detailed analysis of operational data collected by your monitoring systems.

Thanks to Heliocity’s advanced audit engine, we can accurately detect real-world losses, including:

• Shading losses — often underestimated
• Actual module performance vs. manufacturer specs
• Thermal losses related to the local environment
• Soiling losses — and optimization potential through cleaning strategy
• Curtailments due to grid or inverter limitations
• Conversion efficiency losses… and more

All these are integrated into an adjusted performance model, enabling a new P50 calculation — not based on optimistic (or overly conservative) assumptions, but on real, measured performance.

📊 Aligned with Project Management Best Practices

In finance or engineering, regularly updating forecasts — via a reforecast or revised budget — is standard practice.

No one would run a project based solely on a budget drafted before any real-world data was available.

So… why should it be any different for a solar power plant?

🚀 Empower Your Operations with a Dynamic P50

With this new feature, Heliocity encourages solar asset operators to embrace a dynamic, data-driven approach to energy budgeting.

An updated P50 helps you:
✅ Better anticipate future revenues
✅ Reset stakeholder expectations
✅ And most importantly, direct operational efforts where they truly matter

💡 Toward Smarter Management of Your Solar Assets

By updating expected yield based on actual data, you turn a simple metric into a strategic tool.

Quickly identify performance degradation, uncover improvement opportunities, and boost ROI.

This new feature marks another step toward intelligent, business-oriented, and actionable monitoring with Heliocity.

📩 Interested in trying it out?
Reach out to our team to test this feature on your sites — and discover how to turn your operational data into high-value decisions.