Clean Power Research® is excited to announce the public beta release of our new SolarAnywhere monitoring API, designed to provide you with scalable, seamless and efficient access to real-time data. This new, synchronous API supports fast and reliable data retrieval to help owners and operators efficiently monitor the performance of their solar assets.
Closing the gap between predicted and actual PV performance
Systemic underperformance of solar plants has increased the focus on closing the gap between predicted and operational performance. It’s more critical than ever that O&M teams identify underperformance as quickly as possible in order to triage issues and prioritize remediation.
PV performance monitoring at scale requires reliable, independent sources of weather-adjusted irradiance data to create trustworthy PV generation estimates for comparison against measured PV production. Missing data, inadequate coverage, poor quality data or high-latency data feeds are significant barriers to this process. Any of these barriers can reduce revenue when performance issues are identified too late. In the rapidly evolving world of solar energy, reliable data is essential.
Optimizing solar operations with reliable, real-time data
The new SolarAnywhere monitoring API is specifically designed to meet this need. It’s built for performance, optimizing irradiance and weather API calls for the trailing 2 days. This API ensures that you have the most up-to-date solar data at your fingertips, enabling you to make informed decisions and optimize your operations.
This new, monitoring API beta is the latest API offering, and it comes amongst a host of performance enhancements to the classic SolarAnywhere API. We’ve relentlessly enhanced our SolarAnywhere API performance with increased reliability and decreased latency (typically 3x or more) for API calls across-the-board. The existing, asynchronous API takes advantage of AWS cloud architecture to automatically scale resources based on customer load. It’s now faster than ever for you to access SolarAnywhere historical, real-time and forecast irradiance and weather data, as the plots below illustrate.
Increased performance in our classic API across-the-board
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Average Year Summary
Real-Time, Trailing Month
Forecast 168hr Ahead
Features of the new API beta
Benefits of the monitoring API beta include:
- Synchronous data access – Experience the power of real-time data via a synchronous API. Make a call and receive the API response automatically within seconds (often less than a second).
- Decreased latency – Speed up your SolarAnywhere SystemCheck API calls by 4X for data in the trailing 48 hours with less latency variability.
- Comprehensive solar data – Track a wide range of irradiance and weather output fields with ease. The monitoring API covers everything from POAI to precipitation, ensuring you have everything you need to calculate estimated energy.
- User-friendly integration – Seamlessly integrate the monitoring API into your existing systems using a simplified schema. Straightforward documentation and support make it easy to get started and maximize the benefits.
- Enhanced scalability – Benefit from higher default throughput so you can scale your performance monitoring across all your PV systems. Let us know if you need more room to run as well—our support team is here to help.
For more technical details about our new API, check- out our support page.
Get started today
Ready to take your solar monitoring to the next level? Join the beta program and be among the first to experience the power of the new monitoring API. Try the beta now by reaching out to the SolarAnywhere customer success team. For SystemCheck license holders, you already can access the beta today—learn more on our support page.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to expand SolarAnywhere API offerings and let us know if you have any feedback! We look forward to seeing how you leverage the new monitoring API to achieve greater efficiency and success in your solar projects.