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Creation of a new site

To create a new site, click on New

Coordinates

From the Interactive Map it is possible to find the geographical coordinates of any location worldwide using OpenStreetMap and Geonames web services:

  • Enter the desired location in the "Locality" search zone
  • Click on Search
  • Check the Data within the Selected point frame on the right
  • Click on Accept selected point

Geographical_Site_Parameters_InteractiveMap

Alternatively, you can enter the site's coordinates directly in the Geographical coordinates tab. The formats recognized are:

+90.0, -127.554334
47.1231231, 9.99999999

or

45°23'36.123456"N 010°33'48"E.

Monthly weather data

Once the coordinates are defined, you should import the monthly from one of these options

  • Automatically with the Import button by selecting one of the supported providers:
    • Meteonorm 9.0 interpolation procedure,
    • NASA-POWER
    • PVGIS TMY API
    • NREL/NSRDB TMY API
    • Solcast TMY API
    • SolarAnywhere TMY API
    • SolarGis TMY API
  • manually with custom monthly values (follow the link).

Geographical_Site_Parameters_Geographical_Coordinates

Hourly weather generation

When importing data directly from a provider an hourly or sub-hourly weather .MET file will be generated for your site.

  • For Meteonorm import the data is synthetically generated
  • For other API, a TMY is downloaded from the provider. This requires internet access