Solcast
Solcast is a solar and renewable energy data company, acquired by DNV in 2023, that provides high-resolution, satellite-derived solar irradiance, PV power, weather forecasting, and historical climate data via a developer API. Its data covers live, forecast, historical, and typical meteorological year (TMY) datasets for rooftop PV, advanced PV, grid aggregations, and soiling models globally.
Solcast publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Aggregations API, Forecast Data API, Historic Data API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Solar, Energy, Forecasting, Irradiance, and Weather.
The Solcast catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Solcast’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, changelog, and 16 more developer resources.
Kin Score
APIs 6
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Solcast Aggregations API
Live and forecast aggregated generation data for grid collections and sub-aggregations.
Solcast Forecast Data API
Solar irradiance, PV power, and weather forecasts up to 14 days ahead.
Solcast Historic Data API
Historical solar radiation and weather data from 2007-01-01 up to 7 days before present.
Solcast Live Data API
Real-time solar irradiance, PV power, and weather estimated actuals (last 7 days, updated every 5 minutes).
Solcast PV Power Sites API
CRUD management of registered PV power sites for use with the advanced PV power model.
Solcast TMY Data API
Typical Meteorological Year data computed from 2007 to 2023 satellite observations.
Postman Collections 6
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Solcast Aggregations API
POSTMANOpen Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Solcast API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Solcast Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Solcast Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Solcast Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Solcast API Rules
SPECTRALSolcast API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 3
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Solcast Pv Power Site Structure
JSON STRUCTURESolcast Pv Power Structure
JSON STRUCTURESolcast Radiation And Weather Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 6
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type