Meteotest's Solar Web Services offer you exactly the solar data you need.
We deliver forecasts and measurements for power grid management, power trading, monitoring and operation of pv plants, building automation and facility management.
Meteotest offers three products which can be used separately or in combination with one another. A flexible web service together with an attractive price model guarantee an excellent cost/performance ratio in all fields of application.
Our Solar Web Services range from -24h measurements to +72h forecasts. With the Advanced option you get a time span from -7 days to +9 days.
Products
SolarSat
Measured radiation data for the last 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes.
SolarSat delivers satellite measured solar radiation values with quarter-hourly resolution.
You receive the following parameters:
- global horizontal radiation
- global radiation on inclined plane
- clear sky radiation
- reference yield
- temperature
Availability:
- Worldwide
CloudMove
Solar radiation forecast for the next 6 hours, updated every 15 minutes.
The CloudMove technology predicts cloud movement using wind information from weather models and cloud positions from satellites.
You receive the following parameters:
- global horizontal radiation
- global radiation on inclined plane
- direct and diffuse radiation
- direct normal radiation
- reference yield
- temperature
Options:
- Booster: improve forecast by uploading local measurements in real-time
Availability:
- Worldwide
SolarForecast
Solar radiation forecast for the next 72 hours, updated every hour.
Forecast data from weather models is specifically optimized for solar energy applications.
You receive the following parameters:
- global horizontal radiation
- global radiation for inclined plane
- direct and diffuse radiation
- direct normal radiation
- reference yield
- temperature
- humidity, wind, ...
Availability:
- Worldwide
| SolarSat | CloudMove | SolarForecast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Advanced | Standard | Advanced | Standard | Advanced | ||
| Time domain | -24h | -168h* | +6h | +6h | +72h | +216h | |
| Global radiation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Temperature | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Direct/diffuse radiation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Direct normal radiation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Clear sky radiation | ✔ | ||||||
| Radiation inclined plane | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Reference yield | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Hourly data | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| 15-minute data | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔** | ||
| Additional parameters | ✔ | ||||||
| Booster option | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
*Temperature for SolarSat is only available until -48h
**Interpolation of hourly data to 15 minutes. The effective resolution is 1h.
Benefits
No on-site installation
All data is acquired without on-site measurement equipment.
Modular products
You may combine our products as you wish and receive exactly the data you need.
Flexible web service
All products are delivered via an easy to use web service in your desired format.
Attractive price model
An attractive price model guarantees you an excellent cost/performance ratio.
