Development of a Tool to Compare the Operation of the Solar Plants Built by BayWa r.e. France

Sammanfattning: In order to mitigate climate change, installed solar power has to grow, fast, in France. Hence, the tools used in the operation and management of these plants must evolve. During this 6-month internship at BayWa r.e., I had the opportunity the develop a tool to analyze and compare the long-term operation of four plants. As no such tool is available in the literature, a tool developed by the company is used as starting point. Data is harnessed from different sources and processed with the adapted tool. Main KPIs are displayed and analyzed to see the evolution of the four plants over their first four years of operation. A comparison with the yield studies is done. Longterm analysis gives different results over the performance of the plants than the short-term one that is already done. Directly comparing the plants to each other considering different external parameters also give other insights. First results also show that the theoretical study deviate from the reality. With a finer mesh of plants, this kind of tool could be used to estimate the yield of future plants.