Unmetered locations

These are selected locations that can be used when testing or evaluating data. Requests for data using the exact latitude and longitude combinations listed here will not reduce your number of available transactions.

Please note

  1. The required precision to match an Unmetered Location latitude and longitude is four decimal places.
  2. The Unmetered Locations are not available for the Legacy products including Weather Sites, Utility Scale Sites, Rooftop Sites and World API.

Locations

LocationLatitudeLongitudeAdvanced PV resource ID
Sydney Opera House
-33.8567
151.2152
ba75-e17a-7374-95ed
Grand Canyon
36.0997
-112.1124
375f-eb3e-71c0-ef5e
Stonehenge
51.1788
-1.8262
1a57-6b1f-ec18-c5c8
The Colosseum
41.8902
12.4922
5f86-4c8f-2cb3-0215
Giza Pyramid Complex
29.9772
31.1324
8d10-f530-af85-5cbb
Taj Mahal
27.1751
78.0421
b926-8fd2-ad3f-e4f5
Fort Peck (SURFRAD)
48.3078
-105.1017
3ae7-2456-492c-9aba
Goodwin Creek (SURFRAD)
34.2547
-89.8729
b787-cf17-e429-ef1d

Example request

Sydney Opera House — does not count against your quota

Request
curl "https://api.solcast.com.au/data/forecast/radiation_and_weather?latitude=-33.8567&longitude=151.2152&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"
Response
{
  "forecasts": [
    {
      "air_temp": 20.1,
      "ghi": 350,
      "period_end": "2024-07-17T11:30:00+00:00",
      "period": "PT60M"
    }
  ]
}