Is the information provided by free satellite sources suitable for predicting or evaluating the performance of photovoltaic systems in Peru? (In memoriam to Heinrich Berg)

Abstract At present, there are free access online platforms that offer, free of charge, meteorological data on Peru; however, there is no study that validates the goodness of its use in the country. These types of tools are of the utmost interest, both in the design phase of photovoltaic systems PV and in the subsequent process of analysis and evaluation of their operation if it is intended to implement monitoring systems with Class B or C precision defined in the IEC 61724: 2017 standard. In this work, the consistency of the data offered by any of these platforms and their usefulness will be analysed when they are contrasted with experimental data on the operation of real systems.