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June's jet stream shift resulted in contrasting irradiance across South America, with Brazil experiencing its sunniest winter and Argentina its cloudiest in almost two decades.

Tropical Storm Beryl caused temporary dips in Texas solar generation but bounced back quickly. Explore Beryl's path and its impacts on solar energy, and see how Texas solar weathered the storm in the second week of July.

Despite being one of the sunniest months of the year, June delivered less solar generation than average for much of Europe this year. Learn what weather patterns caused this result.

Ever wondered how Solcast delivers accurate forecasts and bankable actuals? Learn more about how we process input data to deliver high-resolution irradiance, weather, and PV power data globally.

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New Mexico's June solar output decreased by 5-10% due to storms from a heatwave, while other US areas, particularly the North East, experienced increased irradiance. 

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Another Saharan dust event happened in June, significantly impacting European solar generation with up to 20% reduction. Read our analysis on the event's progression and impacts. 

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Learn how potential La Niña conditions in 2024 could impact solar production across the US. Check the latest analysis using Solcast API.

Europe experienced contrasting weather systems that resulted in a solar divide in May. Learn how these patterns affect solar generation.

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We've just integrated the HRRR mesoscale model into our Solcast API for enhanced solar accuracy in North America. Check out the difference between the new and old Solcast models!

Accurate solar forecasts are key to stabilizing energy prices. Solcast examines a June 3rd anomaly in Germany to highlight the price of forecasting errors.

Ever wondered how the solar storms that create the Aurora Borealis impact PV generation? Check out how extra-terrestrial irradiance changes solar power during solar flares in our latest insights report.

Solcast forecast improvement is already live for solar operators! Check out how Solcast achieved a relative ~10% error improvement with the integration of high-resolution ICON-EU weather model.

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.

Explore the Solcast report on 2023's irradiance. Discover how high-quality irradiance data can impact your solar projects.

Explore the validation and bankability study conducted by DNV on Solcast's global satellite irradiance data. Learn it's importance for 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.

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.

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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.

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 announces they are joining forces with DNV to drive adoption of global solar irradiance data.

Alex Jarkey is the newest employee at Solcast and has taken on the demanding role of CTO.

Users working in the Solcast API Toolkit can now interact with the latest version of the Solcast API!

We get a special mention in this week's Wall Street Journal - Sustainable Business section.

Solcast has an established history of collaboration with load forecasting tech company, TESLA Forecast. Together, we're taking on the next generation of rooftop solar challenges in South Australia. Learn more in our case study.