Description
Solcast is a leading provider of solar, wind, and weather data solutions tailored for the renewable energy industry. Utilizing global weather data, Solcast delivers high-resolution, bankable historical and accurate forecast data, which is globally validated. The platform is designed to support various stages of renewable energy projects, from feasibility studies to operational forecasting and grid management.
Solcast's data is accessible via API, direct transfer, and web platform, making it a versatile tool for companies in the renewable sector. The platform offers bankable resource assessments, enabling users to model asset performance using global data sets and best practices from DNV. This helps optimize renewable asset development and operational efficiency.
One of the key features of Solcast is its real-time cloud tracking capability, which uses live, high-resolution weather data to model, monitor, and track energy production for solar, wind, and hybrid assets. This feature is crucial for forecasting asset generation and optimizing dispatch, operations, and portfolio management.
Solcast's API delivers high-quality, high-resolution global data, including irradiance, wind, and weather data. The platform supports operational power forecasting models for solar and wind assets, portfolios, markets, and grids, leveraging industry best practices and decades of DNV expertise.
The platform offers several forecasting models, including Rooftop PV, Advanced PV, and Premium PV, each catering to different scales and complexities of solar assets. These models provide continuous, gap-free time-series data in kW or MW, with forecasts available at various resolutions.
Solcast is part of DNV's Green Data Products, a suite of renewable energy solutions that deliver bankable data and advanced power models to support financing, forecasting, and operations across the renewable lifecycle. The platform is trusted by over 600 companies worldwide, making it a reliable choice for those in the renewable energy industry.
Solcast Renewable Data Solutions's Core Features
High-resolution global weather data
Bankable historical and forecast data
API Toolkit for quick data access
Real-time cloud tracking
Operational power forecasting models
Rooftop, Advanced, and Premium PV models
Part of DNV's Green Data Products
Globally validated data
How to use Solcast Renewable Data Solutions?
Access: Use the Solcast API Toolkit
Configure: Select appropriate forecasting model
Integrate: Implement data into workflows
Optimize: Utilize data for asset management
Solcast Renewable Data Solutions's Use Cases
- Resource Assessment
- Operational Forecasting
- Grid Management
- Portfolio Management
- Renewable Asset Development
