Solar360

Solar360 is an interactive simulator that lets anyone calculate how much energy a photovoltaic system could generate at their home, how much they would save per month and in how many years they would recover their investment. The user marks a location on a map, enters their consumption and tariff, picks the installation angle and gets a full simulation with monthly charts, cash flow, environmental impact and a downloadable PDF report.

It was the final project of the Numerical Analysis course at UTN FRLP and is documented in a scientific paper (available for download on this page). The mathematical model was built from an experimental dataset segmented into 6 operating clusters by ambient temperature and panel inclination, fitting a linear transfer function P = β₁·G in each one by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), after comparing it against quadratic and exponential models using R² as the validation metric. At runtime, the simulator queries the NASA POWER API to fetch real monthly irradiance and temperature, iterates month by month to dimension the number of panels, and computes the financial (Payback) and environmental (CO₂ avoided, tree/car equivalents) models.