Introducing Sites API

Introducing Sites API

Methodology

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Resolution and Accuracy
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Solar and Weather
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Power and Tuning
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Data Sources and FAQ

Commercial Products

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Live and Forecast
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Historic
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Typical Meteorological Year (TMY)
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Grid Aggregations
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Geographic Horizon Angles

Hobbyist and Research Products

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Home Hobbyist Accounts
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Researchers and Academic Accounts

Help & Support

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Changes and Announcements
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Plans And Subscriptions
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Evaluation and Testing
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Authentication
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Developer Guides
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Third Party Applications
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Troubleshooting and FAQs

We've launched new features in our solar irradiance data services!

Introducing the Solcast's sites-based approach which acknowledges the uniqueness of individual locations.

Solcast announced an official version 1 (v1.0) for our API services and has since employed a ‘sites’ based approach, where each site has a unique resource ID based on a single, set location.

This API can provide both forecasts and estimates of the actual power output (estimated actuals) from solar PV systems of both rooftop (<1MW) or utility scale (>1MW) .

This sites-based framework also allows Solcast to provide real-time reporting on forecast accuracy, so that you can track our performance and validate our product with ease. We even persist our 1-hour ahead forecast in the API to make it easy for you to validate our accuracy on-the-fly.