Links to Real Time Solar Generation

By Paul Gipe


Update: September 28, 2011. For an example of an easy-to-use interactive map of solar installations that provide public data on performance of solar PV, see TREC’s SolarShare on the Map web page.


April 14, 2007

by Paul Gipe

The following are links to web pages that log real time performance of solar PV systems.

Though there are two important solar PV systems operating in the city of Toronto, a city of 5 million people, only one is reporting its performance. Data on the other is not available.

Despite repeated requests, Toronto Hydro, which installed a 36 kW PV system to much fanfare in 2004, has not made any data available on the system’s performance–certainly none on line.

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