SolarAnywhere® Data

Precise, bankable solar irradiance data

SolarAnywhere is the most trusted, accurate & validated solar resource dataset available

  • Reduce risk in selecting project locations and secure the best financing terms
  • Model long-term energy production and financial performance with confidence
  • Access the right dataset for your project–Typical GHI year, 20+ year historical time-series or ground-tuned data

Features

Accurate

The most accurate and up-to-date satellite-derived solar resource data.

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Validated & Trusted

Extensively validated and trusted by hundreds of enterprise-class customers with 2,000+ monthly downloads.

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Data On Demand

Flexible delivery options include on-demand data and API access, with full records available (1998 – current day).

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Bankability

SolarAnywhere exceeds the standards of bankability.

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Build a custom solution with the SolarAnywhere® API

Powerful, flexible and secure: serving more than 35,000 calls per day.

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Solar Data License Types

MOST POPULAR

Ideal for obtaining an initial, high-level assessment of solar resource availability at a potential project site, and running energy simulations

The Typical Year subscription gives you instant access to trusted solar resource data, ideal for prospecting through project engineering.

  • Long-term average solar weather files from the most trusted source in the industry. Explore our validation methodology to learn how we calculate Typical Year
  • Standard resolution (10 km, hourly) everywhere we have coverage
  • Easy-to-use web portal including on-demand access for any number of users at your company
Specifications

  • V3.6 (fully documented and bankable)
  • As launched
  • Typical year based on data from 1998 through 2021
  • Global
  • Standard: 10 km
  • 1 hour
  • 5%, 8% and 13% for GHI, DNI and DIF respectively
  • GHI, DNI, DIF
    Temperature
    Wind speed
    Elevation
    Relative Humidity
    Snow Depth
    Precipitation
    Surface Albedo
    Clear Sky Irradiance
    Particulate Matter
    Average Snow Losses
    Average Soiling Losses
  • Typical Year (TGY, TDY)
    Average Year Summary
  • Web and Email
1 See SolarAnywhere Geographic Coverage Area for more details.
2 95% confidence interval annual MBE in North America. See SolarAnywhere Validation for more details.

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MOST BANKABLE

SolarAnywhere Sites offers accurate and comprehensive solar data for your project—the most bankable data for PV project financing and asset management
  • Full historical time series; compare to measured data for resource assessment and performance analysis
  • Keep your analysis up to date—each site license includes 1 year of access to the latest data and an on-demand renewal option at reduced operational pricing
  • Improve accuracy in complex terrain with enhanced resolution (1 km, 15 min.) data
  • Characterize interannual variability with unlimited probability-of-exceedance SolarAnywhere PXX Data downloads
  • Refine loss estimates with snow, precipitation and particulate matter data
  • Evaluate how solar forecasts can improve dispatch algorithms and optimize your PV plant design to deliver firm power with hindcast data
  • Assess clipping losses and ramp rates with High-resolution Data with True Dynamics™ (TD), available as an on-demand upgrade (Continental U.S. only)
Specifications

  • V3.6 (fully documented and bankable)
  • As launched
  • 1/1/1998 through current hour
  • Global
  • Enhanced: 1 km
    Each Enhanced Site includes a 3x3 grid of 1 km tiles
    High: 0.5 km (with upgrade)
    Each High-resolution Site also includes a 6x6 grid of 0.5 km tiles
  • Enhanced: 1 hour, 30 minute and 15 minute standard
    High: 5 minute (with upgrade)
  • 4.5%, 8% and 13% for GHI, DNI and DIF respectively
  • GHI, DNI, DIF
    Temperature
    Wind Speed
    Elevation
    Relative Humidity
    Snow Depth
    Precipitation
    Surface Albedo
    Clear Sky Irradiance
    Particulate Matter
    Average Snow Losses
    Average Soiling Losses
  • Time Series
    Typical Year (TGY, TDY)
    Average Year Summary
    Probability of Exceedance (PXX)
    Hindcasts
  • Web and email
    Public: Web only
1 See SolarAnywhere Geographic Coverage Area for more details.
2 95% confidence interval annual MBE in North America. See SolarAnywhere Validation for more details.

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NO-COST ACCESS AT SELECT LOCATIONS

Complete and current SolarAnywhere irradiance and weather data for select locations around the world at no cost
  • Use high-fidelity data at no cost for research, model development, training and more
  • Experience on-demand access to complete and current solar data, including enhanced-resolution typical-year and time-series data updated through the trailing day
  • Test the full range of data available for industry-leading solar resource assessment and asset management, including: probability of exceedance (PXX) data for weather risk assessment; precipitation and particulate matter data for modeling snow and soiling losses; and hindcast data to optimize plant operation for firm power delivery
  • Explore more than 30 global locations, each featuring a city landmark
  • Demo the SolarAnywhere web portal and download formats
  • Commercial use not supported
Specifications

  • V3.6 (fully documented and bankable)
  • As launched
  • 1/1/1998 through current hour
  • Global
  • Enhanced: 1 km
    Each Enhanced Site includes a 3x3 grid of 1 km tiles
    High: 0.5 km (with upgrade)
    Each High-resolution Site also includes a 6x6 grid of 0.5 km tiles
  • Enhanced: 1 hour, 30 minute and 15 minute standard
    High: 5 minute (with upgrade)
  • 4.5%, 8% and 13% for GHI, DNI and DIF respectively
  • GHI, DNI, DIF
    Temperature
    Wind Speed
    Elevation
    Relative Humidity
    Snow Depth
    Precipitation
    Surface Albedo
    Clear Sky Irradiance
    Particulate Matter
    Average Snow Losses
    Average Soiling Losses
  • Time Series
    Typical Year (TGY, TDY)
    Average Year Summary
    Probability of Exceedance (PXX)
    Hindcasts
  • Web and email
    Public: Web only
1 See SolarAnywhere Geographic Coverage Area for more details.
2 95% confidence interval annual MBE in North America. See SolarAnywhere Validation for more details.

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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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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

Ground Tuning Studies

Combine your ground-based measurements with SolarAnywhere® irradiance data to reduce the uncertainty of your solar resource assessments and increase project profitability.

SolarAnywhere Ground-Tuning Studies use an advanced site-adaptation methodology to tune long-term solar resource data to your ground-based measurements.

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