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SoDa is a solar radiation and meteorological data service platform focused on optimizing solar energy production. It provides services related to solar radiation, weather, elevation, astronomy, and atmospheric data. Its primary use cases include site assessment for photovoltaic and solar thermal projects, power generation monitoring, and generation forecasting, while also covering spectral radiation needs in agriculture and health-related fields.
Its core asset is the HelioClim-3 solar radiation database, which covers direct, diffuse, reflected, and global irradiance, and supports irradiance components on different planes such as normal, tilted, and horizontal surfaces. The data spans from February 2004 to “tomorrow,” with time steps ranging from 1 minute to 1 month. It is based on Meteosat-11 satellite imagery, has a resolution of around 3 km, and takes far-horizon shading effects into account. Service offerings include historical radiation archives, real-time radiation time series, solar forecasting, typical meteorological years, short-term on-site measurement calibration, 40 years of historical meteorological data from MERRA-2, 3-day forecasts from GFS, and UV/PAR spectral radiation.
The text explicitly states that SoDa supports access via both a web portal and automated APIs, and lists several categories of Web Services, including HC3 Prospection, HC3 Monitoring, HelioClim-3 Archives, Real Time and Forecast, CAMS, MERRA, GFS, and SRTM. It also notes that the data can be fed directly into PV production monitoring software for plant monitoring, intraday forecasting, next-day generation estimation, and optimization of energy storage and power sales revenue. Unfortunately, the crawled content does not show API authentication details, request examples, response formats, rate limits, or SDKs.
The main text does not disclose the pricing model, plans, free quota, or payment methods, so commercial procurement costs remain unclear. In terms of support, SoDa emphasizes its team’s involvement in research and innovation, and co-hosts annual solar energy training with the Mines ParisTech research center. Its researchers are also able to respond to needs and questions in the solar energy field, which is a plus for professional users.
The strengths are its specialized data dimensions, long historical coverage, end-to-end support for historical, real-time, and forecast data, and backing from research institutions. The drawbacks are limited developer documentation, low pricing transparency, and no clear indication of whether it is open source or self-hostable. It is suitable for PV developers, power plant operators, energy forecasting teams, and research or industry users that need radiation data; it is not a good fit as a general-purpose developer tool.
The crawled text does not include information about network access from China, payment support, or local compliance, so its accessibility can only be considered unknown. For use in domestic Chinese projects, it is recommended to first verify API connectivity, latency, payment methods, and alternative data sources.
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