Estimating the aggregate power for hundreds of thousands of PV sites to improve load forecasting, manage your VPP, or beat the market
You're in good company
Solcast's "Estimated Actuals" closes the gap for our owned and third-party solar portfolios.
Accurate real-time and forecasted weather data is crucial for assessing plant performance and maximizing the value of clean energy assets.
As far as we know, there's no provider that can provide a more accurate forecast.
CLOUD AND IRRADIANCE TRACKING
Tracking the world's clouds in the finest detail
Designed for Solar, from the ground up. Never rely on generic weather model data again. Solcast's real time and forecast data tracks and forecasts real clouds at a resolution of 1-2km and 5 minutes. Our irradiance data and PV power data is updated every 5 to 15 minutes, downscaled to 90 metre resolution. Aerosol and albedo effects are explicitly treated.
CUSTOMISATION
Simplify your approach with powerful customisations unique to your network
Grid Aggregations are dynamic and tailored specifically to your requirements. We model the power output from all solar PV systems in a given market, geographic or network region, creating real-time and forecast power data for each.
VISIBILITY
Achieve visibility over your network with a hardware-free solution
Actionable insights delivered with updates up to every 5 minutes, delivered in real-time. We include probabilistic forecasting outputs, to enable your team to achieve BtM visibility and model network risk.
DATA ACCESS
Improve load forecasting, reduce network risk and enable modern solutions
Build gross demand profile which capture the impacts of cloud cover on behind-the-meter solar. Identify periods of minimum demand or reverse power flows, with confidence. Transform DER from unknown to predictable and improve your load model absolute error by 5-10%.
Grid Aggregation Data Specifications
Geographic coverage | Global, except for ocean and polar regions. |
Temporal coverage | Historic data: January 2007 to 7 days ago Operational data: -7 days ago to + 7 days ahead |
Temporal resolution | 5, 10, 15, 30 & 60 minutes (period-mean values) |
Spatial resolution | 90 metres (irradiance, PV power, snow soiling, cloud parameters, and other parameters across all regions) |
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Data Access | Via the Solcast API & Solcast Web Toolkit |
File Formats | JSON and CSV (CSV not recommended for automation) |
Live and Forecast Data Products
Grid Aggregations
Estimating the aggregate power for hundreds of thousands of PV sites in a single value to improve load forecasting, manage your VPP, or beat the market.
