A long-term solar simulation with hourly data from Sense - accurately size your system - improvements and input needed

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@brettabailey,
Sounds like a very interesting and useful project. A few thoughts:

  1. if you really want to scrape/download each hour in native R, you can use RSelenium instead of a separate macro. Take a look at my CollectData.R script here for an example.
    Scraping the web app Power Meter for data analysis - #3 by kevin1

  2. it’s easy to figure our best case solar production from the NREL app, or from RSolarR, but real world production is another matter.

  3. What is your objective function you are trying to minimize, as a function of power sold to the grid and power bought from grid ?