Table Of Contents

• 1. PDF Cover Sheet
  • 1.1. Cover page
  • 1.2. Copyright
• 2. Advanced Menu Structure
  • 2.1. General structure of the ELFI Inferface
  • 2.2. Functionality and Features of ELFI’s advanced Menu
  • 2.3. Introduction to ELFI’s advanced menu
  • 2.4. Forecast View in the advance menu
    • 2.4.1. Selection Process for Forecast View
    • 2.4.2. Thumbnail View of the Location’s available data
      • 2.4.2.1. Making a selection of a time frame
      • 2.4.2.2. Moving the selected time frame forward and backward
    • 2.4.3. Features of the Graph
    • 2.4.4. Generating a Graph with the Baseline Feature
• 3. Foreast View
  • 3.1. Visualisation of the Forecasts
  • 3.2. Composer - Compose Forecast View
• 4. Forecast Tools
  • 4.1. Advanced Menu
    • 4.1.1. Selection Process for Forecast View
    • 4.1.2. Thumbnail View of the Location’s available data
      • 4.1.2.1. Making a selection of a time frame
      • 4.1.2.2. Moving the selected time frame forward and backward
    • 4.1.3. Features of the Graph
    • 4.1.4. Generating a Graph with the Baseline Feature
  • 4.2. Features of the Forecast Tools interface
    • 4.2.1. Main Menu
  • 4.3. ANN: Artifical Neural Network
  • 4.4. Curve Calculation
  • 4.5. Verification
  • 4.6. Content of the Tools Menu
    • 4.6.1. Main Menu
  • 4.7. Observation Monitoring
• 5. Location Manageent
  • 5.1. Content of the Forecast Sites Menu
  • 5.2. Register Location
  • 5.3. Configure Location
  • 5.4. Availability / Limitations
    • 5.4.1. Availability Update of a plant
    • 5.4.2. Limitations Update of a Plant
  • 5.5. File Upload
    • 5.5.1. Type A Files (non-specific format)
    • 5.5.2. Type B files (specifically formatted data files)
• 6. Support
  • 6.1. Features of the Support Interface
  • 6.2. Contact information
  • 6.3. Change Password Feature
  • 6.4. Access to Online User Guide
  • 6.5. Supported browsers
• 7. FAQ: Forecast Data
  • 7.1. What do I see on the graphic for my selected site (legend) ?
  • 7.2. What is the “optimal” forecast and how are the 10 percentiles computed?
  • 7.3. What is the difference between the f1-f4 and u1-u4 curves and how can I activate them?
  • 7.4. How can I change the start time and end time of the forecasts that I want to look at?
  • 7.5. Can I stay logged in over longer time and if so, how do I load new forecasts?
  • 7.6. What does the restricted Data Mode mean?
  • 7.7. What does scale to ANN mean?
  • 7.8. What does the base line mean and how can I activate it?
  • 7.9. Can I download the data I see?
  • 7.10. How does a non-interactive download of forecast data work ?
  • 7.11. What are the most used features in ELFI?
  • 7.12. Which forecast horizon does the historic data show ?
  • 7.13. Can you explain the individual curves (f1-f4, u1-u4) in the legend ?
• 8. FAQ: Compose forecast
  • 8.1. What is the functionality of composing forecasts?
  • 8.2. Is it possible to store settings for having quick access to graphs and downloads?
  • 8.3. How do I create a graphics with the composer
• 9. FAQ: File Upload
  • 9.1. What is the format of the production data file upload ?
  • 9.2. Can I upload measurements and make them visible at the interface?
  • 9.3. What do I have to do, if I have uploaded production data with the normal upload facility ?
  • 9.4. Which data format is used for the download and upload?
  • 9.5. Can I modify or use own data to fill into the additional lines f1-f4, u1-u4 and how can I do that?
  • 9.6. How do I create a new forecast curve from other curves that I uploded?
• 10. FAQ: Register Location
  • 10.1. What can be seen in the forecast sites menue?
  • 10.2. Why is the Forecast Sites management so important?
  • 10.3. How can I register a new site?
  • 10.4. When I register a site and do not know all inputs, can I save the data anyway ?
  • 10.5. How long does it take until forecast data is available for a new location?
• 11. FAQ: Configure Location
  • 11.1. How long does it take until changes to the configuration affect forecasts ?
• 12. FAQ: Availability / Limitations
  • 12.1. What is the difference between availability and maximum export?
  • 12.2. What does Availability mean?
  • 12.3. Can I also set a range of availability values without typing into every cell?
  • 12.4. Can I also make availability/maximum export changes more than 7 days ahead?
  • 12.5. What happens with future entries, when I made changes that cover over a specific range of values ?
  • 12.6. Can I overwrite previously made entries that come up in my 7-day time range?
  • 12.7. Can I download the data with the changes I have made ?
  • 12.8. Can I get an overview over all my changes to the default?
• 13. FAQ: Curve calculation
  • 13.1. What can I do with the curve calculation?
  • 13.2. How to use the curve calculation interface?
  • 13.3. How are the values computed when I change the weight of curves?
  • 13.4. How are values calculated for a given point in time?
• 14. FAQ: Verification
  • 14.1. Which functionality can I get with the verification tool?
  • 14.2. Can I see the verification results for given curves and a new weighted curve ?
• 15. FAQ: Artificial Neural Network
  • 15.1. What is the ANN tool?
  • 15.2. How can I create a artificial neural network curve?
  • 15.3. How can I see the ANN curve within my graph?
• 16. FAQ: General Questions
  • 16.1. I have lost my password - how can I get a new password ?
• 17. Examples
  • 17.1. How to use the baseline feature
  • 17.2. Compose graphs with fixed settings
  • 17.3. Step-by-step process of composing a graph
• 18. Trouble-Shooting
  • 18.1. Why does the graph not change, when I change the settings ?
    • 18.1.1. 1. verify the settings of the location, the variable and the time interval
    • 18.1.2. 2. Verify the cache of your browser
• 19. Glossary
  • 19.1. Terms