Introduction
SolarAnywhere is a solar resource data service produced by Clean Power Research, LLC, in partnership with the University at Albany (SUNY). It provides historical, real-time and forecast data on solar irradiance, which solar teams use to design, finance and operate PV plants.
Purpose and Target Audience
SolarAnywhere serves solar developers, financiers, asset managers and operators, forecasters, and utilities and grid planners. Developers use the data for energy yield estimates. Operators use it to check plant performance against expected output.
Key Features
- Historical data: Satellite-based solar resource data for energy yield studies.
- Real-time data: SystemCheck data for performance checks, with 5 minute, 500 meter data in Europe and West Africa.
- Forecasts: Irradiance and power forecasts.
- FleetView: Data for fleets of distributed solar systems.
- Site adaptation: Tune satellite data with ground measurements.
- API: Access data and PV power simulation through an API.
- MeteoLens and integrations: Climate datasets from 1960 to 2099, and links to PlantPredict, RatedPower and PVsyst.
Benefits
Good irradiance data reduces uncertainty in energy yield estimates, which affects project finance. One data source can serve the full life of a plant, from design to operation. Integrations with PVsyst, PlantPredict and RatedPower let teams use the data in tools they already use.
Conclusion
SolarAnywhere fits solar developers, lenders and operators that need solar resource data for yield studies, forecasting and performance checks.
