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SolarAnywhere solutions meet a wide variety of needs across solar project development, financing, operations management and performance forecasting

Solar Resource Assessment

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Assess and manage weather impacts on operational projects and portfolios. Scale asset management activities and performance modeling with real-time and forecast solar data.

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Maximize revenues with the most accurate operational solar forecasts. Solar energy stakeholders use forecasts to support bidding strategies and energy dispatch.

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The SolarAnywhere API brings the industry’s most trusted datasets and insights to your applications so you have access to solar resource data and power simulation services.

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Since 2017, we’ve used SolarAnywhere^® data from Clean Power Research to help develop our 5 GW portfolio. By leveraging the API, we’ve been able to develop internal site screening tools and automate many of our reporting and resource assessment processes.

Michael M.

Senior Director, Energy Assessment and Project Planning, National Grid Renewables

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Lightsource BP has worked with Clean Power Research for several years and relies on SolarAnywhere^® Data for project evaluations and to support financing activities. The Clean Power Research team is very supportive in providing answers to data reliability, and in correlation efforts with site-measured data to further improve accuracy.

Armando S.

Director of Engineering, LightSource BP

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Clean Power Research has been a trusted resource for solar irradiance datasets for numerous years. We’ve found SolarAnywhere^® Data to be technically rigorous and provide deeply independent site irradiance assessments.

Michael G.

VP Convenentional and Emerging Technologies , Leidos

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We trust SolarAnywhere^® Data because it’s a comprehensively validated satellite-based resource data set. With SolarAnywhere^® Data, we can prospect for new sites to our heart’s content. Additionally, we never spend time waiting for critical solar data because SolarAnywhere® delivers data, on-demand, in under 5 minutes.

Andrew O.

CTO, Renewable Energy Systems

Resources

Research, Webinars & Whitepapers

How Misuse of Solar Resource Datasets is Reducing Solar Industry Profits

Reducing Solar Project Uncertainty with an Optimized Resource Assessment Tuning Methodology

Behind-the-Meter Intelligence for Distributed PV Grid Integration

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SolarAnywhere® Data coverage goes global with added support for East Asia and Oceania

SolarAnywhere®, the industry’s leading solar data and intelligence service, now offers solar data services in East Asia and Oceania, including Japan, Australia and New Zealand. With the addition of this region, SolarAnywhere now provides full global coverage,...

SunCast podcast: Industry experts discuss the past, present and future of solar project financing

In the SunCast podcast “The Value of Data on Solar Project Finance,” I joined Nico Johnson, the podcast host, Heidi Larson from ICF, and Hoa Shen from kWh Analytics in a discussion about the past, present and future of solar project financing. The conversation focused...

Reduce PV performance uncertainty with specific, data-driven snow-loss estimates using time-series data

A rapid decline in solar technology costs and ambitious federal and state-level renewable energy targets have accelerated the deployment of solar PV across diverse geographical regions. This has allowed solar generation to become viable even in northern latitudes and...

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The SolarAnywhere® team is growing. Please take a look at our current open positions.

SolarAnywhere is a trusted partner of leading solar enterprises delivering the most accurate planning, benchmarking and forecasting software services for solar power programs

Solutions

SolarAnywhere solutions meet a wide variety of needs across solar project development, financing, operations management and performance forecasting

Solar Resource Assessment

Solar Performance Monitoring & Assessment

Solar Forecasting

SolarAnywhere API

Michael M.

Armando S.

Michael G.

Andrew O.

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The SolarAnywhere^® team is growing. Please take a look at our current open positions.