Download historical solar photovoltaic data from PVOutput.org.

This code is a work-in-progress. The aim is to provide both a Python library for interacting with PVOutput.org's API, and a set of scripts for downloading lots of data :)

Installation

Register with PVOutput.org

You need to get an API key and a system ID from PVOutput.org.

If you don't have a PV system, click the "energy consumption only" box when registering on PVOutput. If you don't include a system ID, then you'll get a "401 Unauthorized" response from the PVOutput API.

You can pass the API key and system ID into the PVOutput constructor. Or, create a ~/.pvoutput.yml file which looks like:

api_key: <API key from PVOutput.org>
system_id: <SystemID from PVOutput.org>

API quotas and paid subscriptions

• For free, PVOutput.org gives you 60 API requests per hour. Per request, you can download one day of data for one PV system. (See PVOutput's docs for more info about rate limits.)
• Donating to PVOutput.org increases your quota for a year to 300 requests per hour.
• To get more historical data, you can pay $600 Australian dollars for a year's 'Live System History' subscription for a single country (more info here). This allows you to use the get batch status API to download 900 PV-system-years per hour. If you have subscribed to PVOutput's data service then add data_service_url to ~/.pvoutput.yml or pass data_service_url to the PVOutput constructor. The data_service_url should end in .org. That is, don't include the /service/r2 part of the URL.

Install pvoutput Python library

pip install -e git+https://github.com/openclimatefix/pvoutput#egg=pvoutput

Usage

See the Quick Start notebook.