Solargis launches specialist software for quality solar data management
Solargis, which provides data and software services, has released its solar-specific software, Solargis Analyst. The new software is designed to improve productivity, resolve quality management issues and support decision-making.
Developed in-house by the company’s data analysis team, the new software aims to empower solar engineers and decision-makers to improve complex resource analysis. The hope is to identify and fix errors in measurements and ultimately improve the efficacy of technical and financial decisions.
Solar data challenges
As solar portfolios grow in size and complexity, so does the challenge of managing the consistency and quality of measured solar data streams during project development and operation.
The scale of this challenge is significant, as most solar projects worldwide suffer in some way from unreliable solar resource data.
Solar resource analysts face a constant struggle to reconcile ground-based measurements with satellite-model time series. Errors in solar measurements affect the accuracy of performance estimates, ultimately impacting financial returns.
Furthermore, data quality issues affect long-term operational decision-making, where inaccurate inputs hamper effective development and management of solar portfolios.
Despite these concerns, it is estimated that 70% of solar resource analysts worldwide are still using spreadsheets or other non-specialist tools to manage their solar data.
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Market necessities
The market needs a quicker, more efficient and solar-specific tool for visualising and analysing its key data streams.
Solargis Analyst has been developed to meet this need. It hopes to embody a materialisation of the knowledge and experience of the Solargis team, working with solar measurements for over 1000 sites worldwide.
Solargis Analyst
Solargis Analyst provides a single user-friendly platform for effective management, visualisation and analysis of solar resources and meteorological data.
This in turn will expedite analysis time, simplify complex data procedures and facilitate augmented teamwork.
The platform will enable users to tackle all the most common quality management challenges, including unreliable, incomplete and inconsistently formatted data.
This can be done while meeting demand from the industry for tools specifically based on solar physics and advanced data science.
Empowering solar stakeholders
This aims to enable solar PV stakeholders to increase confidence in financial transactions using quality-approved and validated data. It will further improve the accuracy and transparency of their performance assessments.
Elena Rodríguez, Solar Resource Analyst at Iberdrola, a pilot user of Solargis Analyst, commented on the announcement in a statement, “As we aim to conduct best-practice solar measurement and data analysis campaigns for our growing global asset base, it’s imperative that we empower our solar resource analysis team, so that we can collectively have confidence in the quality of the data that underpins our strategic decision-making.
“Solargis has successfully delivered a software platform that helps us meet this objective and will no doubt contribute to improved data quality standards across the sector.”
Marcel Suri, CEO, Solargis, added, “Solargis Analyst is a tool that has been developed by solar resource specialists for solar analysts and decision makers.
“Our team grapples daily with the challenges faced in reconciling inconsistent ground-based measurements with satellite time-series, and we have aimed to distil 20+ years of our experience in the field into software that will dramatically increase the efficiency of solar data visualisation, analysis and quality management.”
Trial access to Solargis Analyst is currently available to all Solargis data customers until end of June 2022.
