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Maximum solar efficiency shouldn’t cost the earth

Accurate, rapid-update forecasting to improve your yield and planning

Do you have the next-generation foresight you need to maximise your profits?

Weatherzone Business and Solcast are a market-leading partnership delivering highly specialised solar data to the Australian renewable energy industry.

Designed for utility scale solar sites, we offer you a globally proven solution.

With low upfront CAPEX and powerful cloud-based information systems, you can access a complete suite of irradiance and weather data to ensure forecast accuracy and improve site efficiency.

Solcast is the world leader in real-time actuals and rapid-update solar forecasts. This solution utilises Solcast’s centralised Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud infrastructure for all complex algorithmic processes and data plumbing. You will gain the power of AWS to interpret and deliver your data at top speed, providing real-time, historical and forecasting estimates direct to your API.

Receive monitoring and support from the Weatherzone and Solcast teams, 24/7.

We’ve uncovered your power potential

Utilising Solcast’s satellite fleet, sky-imagers and the SCADA data collected from your solar farm, you will acquire not only forecasting capability, but a precise picture of your actual yield and PR. Specifically built to ensure you meet the requirements of the AEMO and reduce your exposure to costly penalties.

Market Leading Data

Reap the efficiency and yield benefits of world-leading solar and irradiance data, without it costing the earth.

Proven Results at Scale

More than 60% of large-scale solar capacity in the NEM already relies on the data provided by the Weatherzone and Solcast solution.

Monitoring and Alerts

Real-time error alerts are delivered when your SCADA system detect any drop in performance, so that a solution can be found quickly.

Latest news

Satisfy your weather obsession with these news headlines from around the nation, and the world.

Southerly buster approaching NSW

  The infamous southerly buster will move up the NSW coast on Wednesday impacting port operations in the region.  Southerly busters are an abrupt southerly change with wind gusts exceeding 54 km/h (29 knots) and a temperature drop of at least 5°C in three hours.   Sydney typically receives five busters a year, with three already […]

NT flooding as Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan moves inland

The remnants of Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan will carry heavy rain across the NT over the next few days as communities assess the damage in the powerful system’s wake. Megan made landfall as a category three severe tropical cyclone on Monday afternoon, crossing the coast to the southeast of Port McArthur. The tropical cyclone caused […]

Cyclone Megan battering NT coast

Destructive winds have started to lash the NT coastline as Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan edges closer to making landfall. At 9:30am ACST on Monday, March 18, Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan was a category three system located 55 km east northeast of Port McArthur. The satellite images below show the powerful cyclone sitting over the Gulf […]

First cold snap of the season

While Monday’s national weather focus is on Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan in the Gulf of Carpentaria, another big system is looming down south that will impact southern Australia in coming days. The first strong cold front of autumn 2024 is heading the way of southeastern Australia and Tasmania and will bring strong blustery winds along […]