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Enlighten secures patent for AI forecast combining local and global weather models
Energy IT platform company Enlighten secured a new patent for technology that improves the accuracy of solar power generation forecasting. The company registered a patent for an electronic device and method for predicting solar output, it said on Sept. 16. The technology uses both localized and global weather forecasts and applies an AI-based cross-attention method to selectively extract strengths from each. Enlighten said it achieved an error rate of around 5 percent.
