PVGIS API (EU JRC Photovoltaic Geographical Information System)

PVGIS API (EU JRC Photovoltaic Geographical Information System)

The EU Joint Research Centre's PVGIS serves solar radiation and photovoltaic output estimates for a given location as a keyless JSON/CSV API. A sample PVcalc call returned PVGIS-SARAH3/ERA5 modelled data for 2005-2023.

Coverage

Hourly series and monthly/yearly averages of solar radiation and estimated photovoltaic output for any location across Europe, Africa, much of Asia and the Americas, using the PVGIS-SARAH3 and ERA5 radiation/meteorological databases over 2005-2023 in the sampled call. Update cadence: Not stated.

Verdict

Solar radiation and photovoltaic output estimates for any location (Europe, Africa, much of Asia and the Americas), hourly series and monthly averages, via a keyless JSON API. Builder note: the licence basis is the EC's general legal notice linked from PVGIS pages, not a PVGIS-specific data licence, so this entry says the Commission legal notice linked from PVGIS says: "Unless otherwise indicated (e.g. in individual copyright notices), content owned by the EU on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence . This means that reuse is allowed, provided appropriate credit is given and changes are indicated." Rate limit: "API calls have a rate limit of 30 calls/second per IP address . If you exceed this threshold, the service will refuse your call and return a \"429 - Too Many Requests\" HTTP status." Signal Lab links only.