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The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.


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University of Sheffield

The PV_Forecast service supplies forecasts of nationally- and regionally-aggregated electricity generation from solar Photovoltaics (PV) connected to the GB transmission network.

Sheffield Solar currently run three tiers of PV_Forecast: Nationally-aggregated, regionally-aggregated by DNO License Area (a.k.a PES or GSP Group) and regionally-aggregated by Grid Supply Point (GSP).
All of the operational and historical forecasts are accessible via a fully documented web API, and there's also a convenient PV_Forecast-API Python Library on GitHub to make accessing them easier (and another for accessing PV_Live historical outturn estimates).

The Sheffield Solar research group is formed in the Physics & Astronomy department, at the University of Sheffield, as part of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures. It works to bridge the gap between the research lab and how solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is used in the real world and to understand its performance and impact.



The PV Forecast web API

This document describes how to use the public PV_Forecast API (v4) and gives example API queries. The API is under active development and so both the query and/or the data it provides may be subject to change.
