Independent and reliable performance assessment for utility-scale solar
MetCube — Proa´s cutting-edge weather station — ushers in a new era of data accuracy and reliability for solar projects. Engineered to integrate seamlessly with any sensor required throughout a project's lifecycle, MetCube eliminates data accuracy uncertainties with its unique features:
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Self-Sufficient operation
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Bird detection and deterrence system
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Intelligent self-cleaning of sensors
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Built-in soiling station with self-cleaning
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Water capture and recycling
Rapid, Simple and Low-Cost Deployment
No hard standing or complicated plant integration and cabling required.
Proa’s unique commissioning validation system means that installation and resulting data accuracy can be immediately validated to confirm reliability and independence of future data.
MetCube - Operation mode
MetCube - Shipping mode
MetCube - Operation mode
The MetCube can be installed or re-installed in any location across your project within 2 hours by a single person needless of working at heights.
Revolutionising Weather Data Protection
Improper maintenance of pyranometers can falsely reduce the measured irradiance, artificially increasing the PR figure and giving a misleading indication of better performance.
MetCube avoids manual cleaning of sensors leading high OPEX. All pyranometers installed on the MetCube are cleaned every day (during night-time) with demineralized water, avoiding traces of minerals on instrumentation domes.
POA and Soiling Station with built-in tracking system and automatic self-cleaning
Both POA and soiling station can be setup for a fixed angle or supplied with a tracking system that replicates in real time the same angle of representative PV arrays.
Upwards POA is installed on the MetCube.
Downwards POA and back-of-module temperature sensor are installed on the PV array and all data transmitted to the MetCube wirelessly.
“Clean” panel of MetCube soiling station is automatically cleaned every day.
MetCloud – Securing data accuracy and independency
The MetCloud services allow post-processing methods to the raw measurements in the form of data quality checks, data wrangling and aggregation (temporally and across the various MetCube units). It also allows access to a dashboard where all the data (raw, post-processed, and aggregated) is available for visualisation and download.
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Download technical documentation in our Resources section.