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At Solargis, we’ve just released Solarmaps: a new solution designed to empower PV power plant portfolio managers, operators, and analysts. Solargis Solarmaps provides timely and accurate insights into the monthly availability of solar resource, air temperature, precipitation, and wind speed: key factors that influence PV power plant performance.

The higher frequency of the extreme weather puts growing pressure on the PV industry to design power plants that can withstand harsher conditions. Beyond this, developers must consider the potential losses from the extreme weather events and the likelihood of their occurrence.

Solargis Evaluate now includes snow loss calculations, providing developers with a more realistic estimate of energy production in regions affected by snowfall. This is one of the latest enhancements in the new Solargis Evaluate platform, launched in early 2025.

Managing multiple applications for different stages of PV project evaluation is both costly and inefficient. While most of the developers have long accepted this as the norm, the solar industry needs a comprehensive solution that brings all functionalities together in one solution.

We’re introducing eight new map layers in Solargis Prospect, designed to provide quick insights into factors affecting the performance, durability, and risk profile of photovoltaic (PV) systems. These new layers offer essential data for PV project engineers, developers, and financial planners, helping them make informed decisions about site selection, system design, and long-term investment strategies.

Today, we launched Solargis Evaluate 2.0, the next generation of our Evaluate solution. The new Evaluate is a more advanced, cloud-based platform for complete PV project design and evaluation, equipping project developers and industry experts with all the tools needed to tackle the growing complexity of modern solar projects.

At Solargis, we conducted our yearly analysis of global horizontal irradiation (GHI) and evaluated the difference for 2024 from the long-term average (LTA).

This innovative Solargis Monthly Report enables portfolio managers and PV site operators to optimize operations and deliver clear insights to board members, senior management teams and C-suite decision makers about the performance of their PV projects.

All Solar industry players need to simulate their power plant designs and financial plans at some point. To do so against summarized conditions given by data products like Typical Meteorological Years has been common until recently. However, running energy simulations using more realistic conditions described by Multi-Year Time Series of data is recommended to reduce project risk and evaluate all scenarios.

Solar irradiance modeling involves computing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface. During eclipses, the moon obstructs solar radiation, leading to a temporary reduction in irradiance.

In this article, we are sharing how Solargis has improved the accuracy of air temperature datasets we provide along with other parameters affecting solar energy power simulations.