SolarArbiter / solarforecastarbiter-core

Core data gathering, validation, processing, and reporting package for the Solar Forecast Arbiter
https://solarforecastarbiter-core.readthedocs.io
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Add reference PV data from NYSERDA #432

Open dplarson opened 4 years ago

dplarson commented 4 years ago

NYSERDA has a database of time-series data for a range of DER systems, including PV: https://der.nyserda.ny.gov/search/

We would need to figure out how much (if any) of the data access can be scripted, but the data itself seems useful. For example, here is the hourly time-series from a 3 MW PV system (https://der.nyserda.ny.gov/facilities/796/):

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wholmgren commented 4 years ago

Cool, thanks! Clicking the download data button and watching the firefox dev tools shows a request that looks pretty scriptable once we figure out the ids of interest:

Request URL:https://der.nyserda.ny.gov/reports/view/download-data/?project=749&activetab=download-data&report=download&sd=2019-01-14&ed=2019-01-16&tstep=hour&dqraw=on