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 The Solar Performance Insight is an open source tool to enable evaluations of solar power plant performance.
 
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+Our project will work directly with industry stakeholders to validate user stories, derive use cases and analytic requirements, and test the platform. Members of the solar community are invited to join the [Stakeholder Committee](/stakeholdercommittee) to provide guidance on project development.
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+# Project Goals
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 A common task in PV Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is to compare expected system performance with actual performance
-over a period of time. The PV O&M service industry lacks an affordable, targeted, straightforward tool that can bring in
-actual  performance data from multiple data acquisition systems (DAS) to perform this task. Consequently, O&M service
-engineers must adapt their workflows to the available tools, spending needless hours coercing available tools to perform
-the desired tasks, thereby increasing costs for O&M services.
+over a period of time. Currently, O&M service engineers must adapt their workflows to the available modeling tools which
+are primarily designed to predict future performance, rather than model past performance.
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+Our project will build a performance modeling and analytics platform based on open-source, extensible, community-maintained code. The project will benefit to the solar community through two primary outcomes:
+-	Extending [pvlib-python]https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python.git) to easily model PV systems with greater detail.
+-	Deliver modeling capabilities through a web-based dashboard and an API.
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+# Funding
+See the [funding page](funding) for more information on the project's funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technology Office.
 
-See the [funding page](funding) for more information on the project's DOE SETO funding.
 
-We continue to seek members of the solar community to provide guidance on project development. Please see our [Stakeholder Committee](/stakeholdercommittee) page for more information on how you can join the committee and help guide the project development.