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How EcoFlow empowers home battery owners with live solar forecasts

Harry Woods

Customer Stories

How EcoFlow empowers home battery owners with live solar forecasts

Ecoflow supports its home solar and storage customers, through an app that helps homeowners understand their energy use and how they use their own solar power. To support this, the EcoFlow product team have integrated high-quality, global solar forecasts using the Solcast API - making tomorrow’s solar production visible, actionable, and reliable - now one of their apps most used features.

Customer Stories

Atmospheric river cuts irradiance across Western North America

Dr. Hugh Cutcher

Solar Analysis

Atmospheric river cuts irradiance across Western North America

Persistent fog, cloud cover and heavy rainfall reduced irradiance across western North America, with Central Valley Tule fog driving anomalies as low as 40% below average.

Solar Analysis

A practical guide to improving utility-scale & rooftop forecasts with site measurements

Harry Woods

Insights

A practical guide to improving utility-scale & rooftop forecasts with site measurements

Discover key insights from Solcast on how site measurements and fine-tuned models can make your PV forecasts more accurate and reliable.

Insights

Atlantic Storm Claudia cuts solar irradiance across Western Europe

Dr. Hugh Cutcher

Solar Analysis

Atlantic Storm Claudia cuts solar irradiance across Western Europe

Storm Claudia brought damaging winds, power outages and reduced solar irradiance across Western Europe in mid-November — with Portugal, Spain, Ireland and the UK particularly hard-hit.

Solar Analysis

Bankability and accuracy: How TMYs can underestimate production, and the impacts on solar project economics

Javier López Lorente

Insights

Bankability and accuracy: How TMYs can underestimate production, and the impacts on solar project economics

Discover why moving beyond hourly Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) datasets to sub-hourly, multi-year Time series data is essential for accurate, risk adjusted financial modeling – and how this improves solar project returns.

Insights

India’s strong monsoon cuts solar generation by 15% in September to October

Dr. Hugh Cutcher

Solar Analysis

India’s strong monsoon cuts solar generation by 15% in September to October

India’s southwest monsoon brought 8% more rainfall than average this year - and solar generation took a hit from the associated cloud.

Solar Analysis

From fragmented to frictionless: How Ecosuite leverages Solcast for DER asset management

Harry Woods

Customer Stories

From fragmented to frictionless: How Ecosuite leverages Solcast for DER asset management

Asset managers overseeing DER portfolios encounter persistent challenges with data acquisition and workflow efficiency. Physical pyranometers, while common in bigger sites, require frequent cleaning, calibration, and maintenance – increasing operational costs.

Customer Stories

Forecasts point to strong solar conditions across the U.S., China and Europe through spring

Dr. Hugh Cutcher

Solar Analysis

Forecasts point to strong solar conditions across the U.S., China and Europe through spring

Strong seasonal signals are driving favourable early forecasts across the US, China, and Europe, pointing to likely increased solar generation through the end of the Northern Hemisphere spring in 2026.

Solar Analysis

TMY data and modeling bias: How 60M vs 15M resolution shapes PV yield accuracy

Javier López Lorente

Insights

TMY data and modeling bias: How 60M vs 15M resolution shapes PV yield accuracy

Discover why sub-hourly (15-minute) TMY data provides more accurate, bankable solar resource assessments than traditional 60-minute (8760) datasets. Learn how higher-resolution TMY data improves yield modeling, investment confidence, and risk management for solar projects.

Insights

High pressure boosts eastern solar as storms hit North America’s northwest

Dr. Hugh Cutcher

Solar Analysis

High pressure boosts eastern solar as storms hit North America’s northwest

October solar conditions varied across North America—strong high-pressure systems boosted irradiance in the East, while storms and Hurricane Melissa led to reduced output in the Pacific Northwest and Caribbean.

Solar Analysis