Simulation and design of solar photovoltaic systems
This section provide a list of solar radiation and meteorological databases free or to purchase.
Solargis gives high accuracy global satellite-based database of historical, recent and forecast solar radiation, temperature and wind data.
Solargis data is supported by all major PV simulation softwares on the market.
Data and assessment tools for energy market development in developing countries (UNEP/GEF)
Solar Energy Resource Assessment - PVDAQ
The NCEP/NCAR is a Reanalysis Project Atmospheric analyses using historical data and analyses of the current atmospheric state. Coverage: the entire world, with a grid cell of approx. 2 degrees in size. Available also through SoDa portal.
PVGIS provides a large and accurate solar radiation free database for europe, Africa Mediterranean Basin and South-West Asia.
PVgis
Canada Natural Resources Canada :
Photovoltaic (PV) potential and insolation web-based maps from interpolated measurements
High-Resolution Solar Radiation Datasets
Renewable resource assessment: solar energy
Restscreen is a free software that includes worlwide solar radiation database.
Worldclimate (USA) gives Worldwide rainfall and temperature database (85000 sites).
Worldclimate
NASA SSE
NASA Solar Radiation Archive of over 200 satellite-derived meteorology and solar energy parameters, globally available at a resolution of 1x1 degrees.
New! See our tutorial to get monthly and annual worldwide solar and climate data from NASA database.
NEW enhanced free solar and weather Data Access Viewer from the NASA
SoDa HelioClim3 is a web service for profesionnals of solar energy. Worldwide solar radiation database.
SOLAR RADIATION AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA SERVICES to optimize solar energy production toward a sustainable future.
SoDa is an access to many solar, meteorological, altitude, astronomical, and atmospheric services.
SoDa delivers solar radiation and meteorological data services for solar photovoltaic and thermal site prospection and electricity production monitoring and forecasting.
SoDa also provides spectral radiation services for agriculture and health domains.
The Website SOLEMI is no more available
Satellite-based service for high-resolution solar radiation for Europe, Africa and Asia (DLR, Germany)
Global solar Atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally. It is provided by the World Bank Group ...
Runs a computer model which produces estimates of the daily total of solar radiation from the MTSAT-1R geostationary satellite.
Australia Bureau of Meteorology
S@tel-light : from satelite databases 1996-2000, Satel-light generate solar radiation maps in Europe.
The website "http://wrdc.mgo.rssi.ru/" is no more available!
World Radiation Data Centre.
Solar radiation and radiation balance data (the world network). The WRDC is a laboratory of Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring formerly USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology, and is located in St.Petersburg. It provides worldwide solar radiation database.
World Radiation Data Centre
