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HelioScope, a cloud-based platform from a new company called Folsom Labs, is part of an industry-wide effort to change that.

HelioScope effectively lets engineers create accurate, granular models of solar power plants.

A study by DNV GL found that HelioScope was within 1 percent of the performance of conventional tools.

Helioscope, hē′li-o-skōp, n. a telescope for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, by means of blackened glass or mirrors that reflect only a part of the light.—adj.

He studied the sun carefully through colored glasses in a helioscope and then conceived the idea of projecting the sun's image on a screen in order to study its surface.