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Accurate performance evaluation of PV power plants is essential for verifying design expectations, maximizing energy yield, and supporting informed decision-making across the project lifecycle. Performance guarantee contracts between developers and EPC contractors make reliable measurement and analysis practices critical for every stakeholder.

Download this free white paper to learn the best practices in designing measurement campaigns, calculating performance indices, and applying data quality control — backed by over 23 years of Solargis experience.

What will you learn?#

Design of a measurement campaign

Best practices for setting up primary and secondary meteorological stations, selecting Class A instruments, and measuring key parameters including GHI, DNI, temperature, wind, and albedo.

Operation and maintenance

Why rigorous O&M procedures and systematic data quality control are essential for obtaining reliable, bankable solar measurements — and what can go wrong without them.

Performance Ratio (PR)

How to calculate PR and temperature-corrected PR, what losses it captures, and why instrument quality directly affects the accuracy of this widely used performance indicator.

Energy Performance Index (EPI)

How EPI differs from PR, why it is increasingly replacing PR in the industry, and how Solargis uses 15-minute simulation data to deliver more detailed performance insights.