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Check out the unique view of the eclipse showing the live actuals for the eclipse path and weather impacts on irradiance. The effects on solar generation across American assets and grids were analysed using the Solcast API.

Get ready for the April 8th solar eclipse across the US, a key event for eclipse watchers and solar power managers. This interactive forecast map uses cloud tracking built for the solar industry to show the latest forecast for cloud thickness during the eclipse.

A Saharan dust event impacted solar irradiance across Europe in February, resulting in up to 25% daily losses. Discover how advanced aerosol handling can help you prepare for events like this.

Accurate day-ahead forecasts are essential for informed planning, enabling efficient operational dispatch and energy storage. It helps you prevent issues like grid instability, regulatory violations, and financial losses.

Solcast analysis has revealed that 2023 was the sunniest year of the century, with many regions experiencing irradiance levels 10% or more above long-term trends.

Solcast achieves a significant milestone with DNV's validation of its satellite irradiance data, proving its bankability across more than 200 sites worldwide. Learn how this could improve your solar projects.

On April 8, a total eclipse will pass from Mexico, across Texas, and up the East Coast. With the increasing solar capacity in the US, the grid impact of major solar events is also growing. Explore our early forecast on how the eclipse will impact US grids.

Evaluating PV Power models is essential to understand how your model processes data and considers PV Power losses. Here is a detailed guide to help you assess a forecast dataset.

The latest release of the PVLIB tool version is designed to help more users to easily fetch Solcast data for more seamless integration.

Understanding weather patterns and their impact on solar production is crucial for making well-informed decisions about your solar projects. Learn how Wärtsilä Energy integrated Solcast’s 5-minute data for improved forecasting and workflow.

Reliable solar data is critical when planning, designing, and building residential solar assets to ensure maximized energy generation potential. Learn how Aurora Solar enhanced its platform with Solcast TMY data, empowering more residential solar professionals.

Evaluating forecast irradiance data is essential in ensuring that you're using a reliable data to effectively design and operate your solar assets. Here is a detailed guide to help you assess a forecast dataset.

Managing off-grid energy storage requires accurate forecast data. Discover how GKN Hydrogen integrated the Solcast API for improved control strategy in this case study.

Evaluating Accuracy is essential when selecting a solar data provider, make sure you're completing the right level of validation for your needs, and find easy solutions to the challenges of data validation.

Hear from Solcast's James Luffman and DNV's Dana Olson on why DNV acquired Solcast, and how solar data is powering the solar industry.

Designed for ease and efficiency, our SDK eliminates boilerplate code, so you can concentrate on building your project, not wrestling with APIs.

See how the October 2023 annular eclipse impacted solar power production across American Power Grids, the United States and Central and South America.

Learn how snow soiling impacts assets and grids, and how Solcast's models account for snow soiling levels in power modelling, grid aggregations and more.

Explore the critical role of aerosols in solar irradiance and how Solcast's aerosol modelling provides a more comprehensive irradiance data.

Discover how Solcast uses satellite imagery and weather forecasts to build 5 minute cloud tracking models and provide irradiance data for everywhere in the world.

El Niño historically brings increased cloud cover to most of North America, negatively impacting solar production compared to the long term average. Learn more about the climatological impacts of El Niño has had in the United States and Canada historically and what that means for solar generation from your assets.

Discover how Victron Energy is utilizing Solcast's global solar irradiance data to power their innovative new Solar Forecasts feature. Explore how this collaboration is shaping the future of solar energy.

Until last week, Solcast only supported user-supplied horizons, and only for our Advanced PV Model data product. It was a good start that we made a couple of years ago, but we wanted to go further.

Explore the indispensable role of accurate irradiance nowcasts in optimizing solar power generation. Uncover how these short-term forecasts are built and how they help improve efficiency, reduce costs, and contribute to the energy transition in the solar industry

Explore the role of satellite data quality and climate change in solar resource estimation, and learn why Solcast's historical time series data starts from 2007 for more accurate solar irradiance assessments.

Discover the rare hybrid solar eclipse over Australia on April 20, 2023, and explore its impact on solar irradiance. Dive into the technical details behind our cutting-edge modelling techniques and the implications for the Western Australia power grid.

Solcast has now joined DNV, as announced February 1st 2023. For our customers, nothing is changing. Solcast is still operating from our Sydney Office. We have the same great team and products - and DNV is investing to support our growth.

Sometimes we get asked “what’s the difference between Solcast data and forecasts from the (many) generic weather apps and APIs?”.

Solcast have worked diligently to enable the hard-working folks who are managing, operating and deploying utility scale solar farm sites by delivering on an easy to use and easy to understand forecasting solution via API

When we first launched the Solcast API in early 2017, the Solcast team was excited to learn more about the market for historical and forecast solar irradiance and solar power data services. Now, 18 months later, with nearly a thousand users across five continents, we see no better way to launch our company blog than by thanking those users for their commitment to the integration of solar energy, and for being such forward-thinking early adopters of the Solcast API. So - Thank you!

Next week, our CTO Dr. Nick Engerer will travel to Perth to join our collaborators at Western Power to host a webinar reviewing the rooftop solar related challenges in West Australia

Behind the meter solar PV power forecasting is an essential tool for accurate supply and demand balance for grid operators. And with rooftop PV installations in Western Australia growing quickly, load forecasting is becoming increasingly difficult for our partner Western Power.

This example highlights the important of having quality solar forecasting data for rooftop solar sites included in the load forecasting models for areas with high penetrations of rooftop solar.

In my role as CEO of Solcast, I've been directing my team to think more like the customer, and as a result, Solcast has been working to make the accuracy of its solar power forecasting highly visible. We are now storing our 1-hour ahead forecasts for everywhere in the world, and making them available to our customers & users in real time.