Services
Large utility and commercial solar projects need comprehensive solar resource maps before a site is chosen. Our assessments cover high-resolution global horizontal, diffuse and direct normal irradiance data worldwide. Planning on that basis lowers the levelized cost of energy, reduces financing costs and improves return on investment.
Every siting and design decision changes the risk a developer carries for the life of the plant. Managing that risk well lowers the cost of debt and improves project return.
Our satellite-based toolset maps solar resource at high resolution, backed by ground-based metering equipment. Those maps are combined in GIS decision support systems with site data — land use, grid proximity, terrain, road access — to locate, rate and rank candidate sites.
Our strategic approach to energy management
We maintain a global data set of horizontal, diffuse and direct normal irradiance, updated every half hour from in-house satellite processing. The same data has supported projects in Canada, the United States, Australia and the Middle East. Delivered as interactive GIS, it layers topography, shading, grid proximity, roads, soil type and protected areas so candidate sites compare directly.
We bridge solar technology and its efficient deployment with impartial analysis of a site's suitability. As part of an integrated design team, our energy engineers treat energy performance as central to plant design, and use detailed modelling to maximise the resource a plant can capture.
SolarSatData™ delivers site-specific generation forecasts as a service, improving operational planning for both maintenance and energy sales. Specialised modules account for local phenomena such as the coastal marine layer that affect available resource and forecast accuracy.
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