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.
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.
Reap the efficiency and yield benefits of world-leading solar and irradiance data, without it costing the earth.
More than 60% of large-scale solar capacity in the NEM already relies on the data provided by the Weatherzone and Solcast solution.
Real-time error alerts are delivered when your SCADA system detect any drop in performance, so that a solution can be found quickly.
Sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean suggest that a negative phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may be emerging, which could influence Australian weather patterns in the coming months. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD is an index that measures the difference in sea surface temperatures across the tropical Indian Ocean. […]
Australia will endure a dynamic mix of extreme weather this week, with intense thunderstorms generating destructive winds in multiple states and record-challenging heat in the outback. Thunderstorms Thunderstorms will occur over part of Australia every day this week as a series of troughs and low pressure systems pass over the country, with a particularly nasty […]
An unseasonably hot airmass will linger across parts of southern Australia next week, with temperatures set to reach the 40s across Australia’s interior and the low 30s in some capital cities. Heat has been building over northern Australia during the opening weeks of spring, with severe heatwave conditions impacting those living in the north during the […]
Spring has been a stormy season for large areas of WA, with another few big storm days ahead in the Pilbara and Kimberley region. Merely a week ago, widespread thunderstorms lashed the interior of WA, with Weatherzone’s Total Lightning Network detecting 605,166 lightning strikes on Wednesday, October 2. Thunderstorms are again forecast over the coming […]
