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SolarAnywhere® (https://www.solaranywhere.com) provides bankable solar resource data for project finance. SolarAnywhere satellite irradiance data are available for specific sites on a 1 km x 1 km or 10 km x 10 km basis from 1998 to the present hour depending on geographic availability. It is managed by Clean Power Research LLC (http://www.cleanpower.com).

In addition to the solar irradiance fields (GHI, DNI, and DHI), SolarAnywhere provides wind speed, temperature, relative humidity, snow depth, precipitation, albedo, and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) data.

 

 

Details of the Method
 

SolarAnywhere irradiance data are generated using visible- and infrared-channel data captured by geosynchronous orbiting satellites. The satellite images are processed using the most advanced algorithms developed by Dr. Richard Perez at the University at Albany (SUNY). These algorithms extract cloud indices from the satellite’s visible and infrared data. A self-calibrating feedback process adjusts for arbitrary ground surfaces such as terrain and albedo. The cloud indices are used to modulate physically based radiative transfer models describing localized clear sky climatology.

In agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Perez model-based satellite irradiance data comprised the 2005 (SUNY version 1) and 2010 (SolarAnywhere version 2.3) National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) releases. While the output format of SolarAnywhere satellite irradiance data is similar to NSRDB data, SolarAnywhere now provides more recent and more accurate datasets intended for commercial use.

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