Solcast - Grid Aggregations Software

Improve load forecasting, manage your network, or beat the market. Solcast Grid Aggregations pair up our global cloud nowcasting systems with PV installation mapping to provide forecast, historical and live estimates of total distributed solar power output. Useful for solar assets of all sizes, including behind-the-meter PV. Sign-up to our API and view live samples of one of the 750+ aggregations running live globally. Contact us to create your own.

Customised aggregate power outputs forecasts from solar PV systems of all sizes. Group them by market or geographic region. For added detail, group according to network assets (e.g. substation). Privately share basic PV installation data to quickly setup a demonstration.

• Live power forecast and estimated actuals data
• Probabilistic forecasting which includes 10th & 90th percentiles
• Aggregations can be provided top-down (via known pooled installations), or bottom-up (via live composition of tens to thousands of sites)
• Aggregations can be for any combination of sites, regions or network assets
• Privacy agreement for your shared data, including the ability to permanently delete

• Parameters:
• PV Power (MW)
• PV Power Performance (% of installed capacity)
• Forecast probabilities : 10th and 90th percentile forecasts provided for: PV Power (MW) PV Power Performance (%)
• Spatial coverage : All continents (Rapid update actuals and forecast data) Global (forecasts)
• Time granularity : 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes (period mean)
• Update frequency : Every 10 or 15 minutes
• Time span (Forecast) : Present time to +7 days ahead
• Time span (Live) : 7 days ago to present time
• Time span (Recent) : 4 months ago to 2 days ago
• Time span (Historical : 12 years ago to 2 days ago
• Power modelling - Configuration options
• Minimum metadata you need to provide
• Region definition (political region names, or shapefile) Installed total PV capacity OR List of each PV site location and capacity