Expected Energy Yield Map

Irradiance is not energy. Between the two sit the choices that decide a project’s economics: fixed tilt or single-axis tracking, module technology, bifacial gain, inverter loading, temperature derating, soiling, snow, and the horizon that the surrounding terrain imposes. This service applies those choices and outputs the quantity that a business case is built on: expected generation.

For solar it runs a full simulation chain per pixel, producing specific yield in kilowatt-hours per kilowatt-peak and absolute generation for a stated capacity, with monthly and hourly profiles. For wind it applies a chosen turbine’s power curve to the modelled wind distribution at hub height, with wake and availability assumptions stated rather than buried. Both carry the same terrain-derived horizon shading, which is the factor most desk studies omit and most disappointing sites turn out to have.

The output is a heatmap, which matters more than it sounds: seeing yield vary across a candidate parcel is what tells a developer which corner of it to build on, and what a single site-level number never shows.