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Solcast Articles
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Lowering uncertainty is fundamental to managing solar investment risk
The principal input to the rate of return calculation for a solar farm asset is the expected revenue generation from the solar farm. This highlights the importance of high quality solar irradiance data: revenue generation is primarily influenced by ...
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A Review of the Historical and TMY data now on offer through the API Toolkit
In this post, Solcast dives into its historical and TMY data offering. This includes a brief review of methods plus the basics on historical time-series data, typical meteorological year data and monthly averages data.TMY and time series data for ...
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Price Flexibility at the Gym and Your Next Solar Project
What do going to the gym and purchasing historical solar radiation data online have in common? Price flexibility. As a consumer, this is very important to me. You see, I really love fitness. I have a firm dedication to my cardiovascular health and ...
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Let Solcast take the pain out of PV generation forecasting at your solar farm asset
Owners and operators of solar farms already have one too many things to think about. Compliance items stack up by the thousands very quickly. Utilities providing their network connections can impose new requirements without warning. Manufacturers of ...
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Solar forecasting for solar cars
Learn about how the Eclipse X solar car team uses solar forecasting in its race strategy! Solar forecasting for the Eclipse X Solar Car This week, we have a guest blog post from the Eclipse X solar car team, who are accessing the Solcast API to ...
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How to download and test Solcast TMY and timeseries data in just minutes for FREE
Now that you have your FREE Solcast data credits - we suggest you download your own sample TMY or historical time-series file. This only takes a matter of minutes to achieve through the Solcast API Toolkit, and in this post, we`re going to show you ...
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Solcast partnership with BloomSky deploying sky-imagers
Solcast has partnered with BloomSky on our Super Rapid Update solar power forecasting products. Get a sky-imager installed on your solar farm site with affordable and fast installation. Sky-imagers for short-term solar forecasting Solcast recently ...