Audience

Solar energy developers, engineers, data scientists, and operators who need high-resolution solar irradiance, weather, and PV power forecasting data delivered via API for planning, monitoring, forecasting, and optimizing solar assets worldwide

About Solcast

Solcast is a cloud-based solar and weather data software built to provide high-resolution, bankable historical, live, and forecast solar irradiance, weather, and photovoltaic (PV) power data for renewable energy applications, delivered through a scalable REST API and developer tools. It tracks real-time satellite cloud cover and blends that with advanced weather models to deliver solar irradiance forecasts from five minutes up to 14 days ahead with high spatial and temporal resolution, and also supplies historical time series from 2007 to seven days ago for performance analysis. Solcast supports multiple PV power forecast models (Rooftop PV, Advanced PV, and Premium PV) that estimate actuals and future output for solar assets of any scale, and its API returns data in JSON or CSV formats suitable for integration into energy software, analytics platforms, or custom workflows. Developers can access this data using native HTTP clients or SDKs (such as Python and C#) with code examples.

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Company Information

Solcast
Founded: 2016
Australia
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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Support
Online

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Solcast Product Features

Solar

Solar Design
PV Animation
2D/3D Drawing
Bill of Materials
Analytics / Reporting
Solar Monitoring
Solar Maintenance Management
Solar Project Management
Solar Sales / CRM
CMMS
Proposal Management
Preventive Maintenance
Field Service Management
Estimating
Permitting