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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Improve PV modeling with new SolarAnywhere® High-resolution solar data with True Dynamics™

Sunlight is dynamic. Imagine sunlight filtering through broken, drifting clouds. Shadows and light race across the landscape. The sun tracks across the sky. This is the real world that solar systems operate in. It’s no surprise that hourly PV modeling—still solar...

2022 Solar Risk Assessment Report: Expert insights into key risk factors impacting solar assets globally

Although 2021 marked the third year in a row that solar represented the largest share of new generation capacity in the U.S., continued supply chain constraints, tariff investigations and inflation all pose uncertainty for 2022 project development pipelines. In this...

2021 Europe weather report: Extreme weather events highlight the need for comprehensive weather analytics

In 2021, Europe experienced the hottest summer on record, at 1.0°C (1.8°F) above average. This included an all-time peak temperature of 48.8°C (119.8°F) measured in Sicily in early August, surpassing the prior record of 48°C (118.4°F) set in 1977 in Greece. Also in...

SolarAnywhere® 2022 updates: industry-first features improving PV modeling accuracy

Each year Clean Power Research® makes updates to SolarAnywhere® to continue our tradition of providing the solar industry and utilities with the world’s best solar data and intelligence services. This year’s releases include: Global, easy-to-access snow and soiling...

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