Solcast Cloud Integrations

Solcast Cloud Integrations

This page descirbes the Cloud Integrations support for Solcast. See the Solcast documentation site for information about their APIs.

Solcast Integration service

The Solcast integration service identifier is s10k.c2c.i9n.solcast. The following service properties are supported:

Property	Description
apiKey	The Solcast API key to use for authentication
baseUrl	An optional alternate URL to use to access the cloud service

Solcast Datum Stream services

The Solcast integration supports the following Cloud Datum Stream Service implementations:

Service	Identifier	Description
Solcast Irradiance	s10k.c2c.ds.solcast.irr	Polling datum stream using the Solcast API for irradiance data

Solcast Irradiance Datum Stream Service

The Solcast Irradiance datum stream service identifier is s10k.c2c.ds.solcast.irr. This service accesses the Live Irradiance and Weather API. The following service properties are supported:

Property	Description
lat	The GPS decimal latitude to query
lon	The GPS decimal longitude to query
azimuth	The angle (degrees) from true north that the PV system is facing. Only used with GTI data values. The value must be between -180 and 180. Default is the optimal value based on the given lat value
tilt	The angle (degrees) tilt from 0 (facing directly upwards) to 90 (facing the horizon). Only used with GTI data values. Default is 23
arrayType	The array mount type. Only used with GTI calculations. Supported values are fixed and horizontal_single_axis. Default is fixed
resolution	The desired resolution of the data, in seconds. Supported values are 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1800, or 3600. Default is 300
noHistoric	Set to true to disallow using the Solcast historic API, and allow only using the live API. Useful if your Solcast credentials do not allow use of the historic API. Default is false

No Data Filters are supported.

Datum Import support

This service supports the Cloud Datum Stream import service.