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Integrate Solcast API into iotools

Open mikofski opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Get irradiance via Solcast API https://solcast.com/solar-data-api/api/

Describe the solution you'd like Use iotools to get irradiance data from Solcast

Describe alternatives you've considered Solcast already has an API toolkit. Is irons redundant?

Additional context

  • https://docs.solcast.com.au/#introduction
  • https://solcast.com/solar-data-api/api-toolkit/
  • icymi @AdamRJensen

mikofski avatar Sep 24 '21 08:09 mikofski

This could be expanded to include other APIs, such as Solargis (https://solargis.com/products/api/data-delivery-web-service/overview) and SolarAnywhere (https://developers.cleanpower.com/irradiance-and-weather-data/).

williamhobbs avatar Jan 07 '22 19:01 williamhobbs

A bit of relevant discussion here: https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/discussions/1310

kandersolar avatar Jan 07 '22 19:01 kandersolar

Hi @kanderso-nrel is this issue superceded by the Engerer PR #1366 ?

mikofski avatar Jan 07 '22 19:01 mikofski

@mikofski Solcast and Engerer don't seem related to me, what's the connection? Or maybe you meant another issue?

kandersolar avatar Jan 07 '22 19:01 kandersolar

Nick Engerer is the CTO and a co-founders of Solcast, so I thought maybe their software uses his methods? But TBH that's just an assumption.

mikofski avatar Jan 08 '22 00:01 mikofski

Ha, of course! I think #1366 does not supercede this one: decomposition function in pvlib.irradiance vs data fetching function in pvlib.iotools.

kandersolar avatar Jan 10 '22 15:01 kandersolar