Clean Power Everywhere

Peter Lilienthal

My goal in creating the HOMER software was for a simple model that helped people get clean power everywhere. These are even simpler pieces of software.

Projects

Solar Battery Simulator This is the flagship model. It was originally conceived to show how cost-effective cooking with PV could be. It can actually be used to look at any application that uses load management instead of a backup generator or grid connection.
PV + Battery Estimator This is an earlier version that uses HOMER's optimizer instead of having Claude create a new simulator. It requires the PV+Battery system to provide 24 hour constant power (100% capacity factor) to compete against a nuclear plant. That is unrealistically conservative because actual utility load factors are more like 60% and nuclear plants can't load follow.
Temperature Graph This isn't directly about clean power. I've just been marveling that here in Colorado the temperatures have consistently been above average for months and wanted a new way to visualize that. After creating that it was easy to get HOMER to embellish it with other locations and trends.