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Solar Analytica aggregates solar, climate and market data from the product level up: grounded entirely in the historical record, every figure named to its source, and read at the altitude a decision actually needs. From a single rooftop to a national portfolio.
For a century, energy was an engineering question: build the plant, string the wire, meter the load. It is now a data question. The cost of a kilowatt-hour, the yield of a panel, the direction of a subsidy and the drift of the climate that powers it all move faster than any single operator can track by hand.
Solar Analytica holds that evidence in one place and keeps it honest. Every figure names its source. Nothing is modelled where it can be measured. And attribution is only the floor: wherever the source is public, the number is reproducible — run the same records through the published method and you arrive at the same figure. The result is a reading of the market that holds the same shape whether you are pricing one roof or a national build-out.
The point of keeping the record this way is what it does to the forward view. A projection fed from a reconciled record starts better, and a projection published over one gets marked: our scenario models name the roadmap figures observed data has already overtaken, and the TBx Capture Index scores what every NEM battery actually earned against a perfect-foresight benchmark. We do not claim to see the future more clearly. We make claims about the future accountable to the record.
Long-form analysis built on the substrate: what the historical record says, and where it points. Every number sourced.
SWIS outlook
AEMO's ten-year SWIS planning case, kept explicitly separate from observed operations: a 347 MW forecast surplus in 2028-29, a shortfall from 2029-30, and coordinated household batteries entering the capacity model.
SWIS reference
A reference edition for 246 local Western Australian energy markets: rooftop solar and battery adoption, household addressability, published network opportunities, and the operating record of an isolated grid. It makes one point plainly: SWIS is not one market.
Market structures
Battery offtake contracts settle on perfect-foresight spread indices, and the gap between the index and reality has been a modelled claim until now. Computed from primary AEMO data across all 60 NEM bidirectional batteries in Q1 2026: the median full-quarter asset captured 46% of its duration-matched TBx index, the index ran 2.7x to 3.8x actual fleet energy revenue in every region, and one asset beat it.
Production climate
The annual synthesis of the whole series: nine variables, each at its latest reading. The 2026 headline is a contradiction: the climate has never been more demanding (2024 was the hottest year on record) yet solar has never been winning faster, becoming the largest single renewable at 8.7% of global electricity. Solar is scaling into exactly the climate that makes reading it correctly matter most.
Production climate
The series' capstone: every climate variable joined to yield and tariff. Stacked and multiplied by the local price, they invert the map. Across the 23 priced markets, dim Berlin earns more per kilowatt than all but two, while sun-rich Riyadh ranks 21st and Cairo dead last. The tariff spread is 20 to 1; the sunlight spread is barely 2 to 1.
Scenario planning
Industry roadmaps disagree by wide margins on 2030's cell-technology mix, and revise themselves within a single year. A low/base/high scenario model, aggregated from ITRPV, CPIA, Exawatt and NREL, built for procurement and capex planning rather than a single confident forecast.
Behind every report is a live, versioned data layer: the physical inputs, the market inputs, and the joins between them. It is the same spine that feeds the wider network.
Satellite solar resource for 40 benchmark markets, from the hyper-arid belt to the cloudiest coasts. NASA CERES.
Modelled specific yield per market for PERC, TOPCon and HJT modules. NASA MERRA-2, 1994 to 2024.
Residential retail tariffs across 92 cities and 70 countries, 2016 to 2025, in local currency and USD.
Global electricity generation mix and carbon intensity, year by year. Ember Global Electricity Review.
Temperature, ocean heat, sea ice, ENSO and the Indian Ocean Dipole, 2004 to 2025. NASA GISS and NOAA.
price × yield: the annual grid-offset value of a kilowatt, market by market. The decision variable, not the sunlight alone.
A serious energy decision moves from the market to the product to the job. Each altitude has its own property, and they share the same evidence and the same standard.
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The AI layer across all three: ask any energy question and get an answer drawn from the market view, the product scores and the applied bench at once, every figure sourced, with a link to the report, score or tool behind it.
Begin with the reports: the market, read from the evidence up. For head-to-head product scores, the instrument continues at review.solar.