Energy Data Point Nrel Solar Irradiance Example

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Energy Data Point Nrel Solar Irradiance Example is an example object payload from Energy and Utilities, with 12 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

$schemaseriestimestampintervalSecondsvalueunitkindlocationassetqualitysourcetags

Example Payload

{
  "$schema": "../json-schema/energy-utilities-energy-data-point-schema.json",
  "series": "nrel.nsrdb.ghi.tmy",
  "timestamp": "2026-05-22T19:00:00Z",
  "intervalSeconds": 3600,
  "value": 812,
  "unit": "W/m2",
  "kind": "irradiance",
  "location": {
    "latitude": 39.74,
    "longitude": -105.18
  },
  "asset": {
    "type": "weather-station",
    "model": "NSRDB Physical Solar Model 3"
  },
  "quality": "final",
  "source": {
    "providerId": "nrel",
    "endpoint": "/api/nsrdb/v2/solar/psm3-2-2-download",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-05-22T19:05:00Z"
  },
  "tags": ["solar", "ghi", "nsrdb"]
}