A running record of what we have added and improved: new reports, indices, data and refinements.
Market Structures, and the data made explorable
New Market Structures line, launched with the TBx Capture Index: every battery in Australia's National Electricity Market measured against a perfect-foresight benchmark, computed from primary AEMO dispatch data. The first edition covers Q1 2026 across all 60 grid-scale batteries.
New interactive: The Value of a Kilowatt, the price times yield join across 28 markets, sortable by value, sunlight or price.
Open data: structured report metadata, leads, stats, takeaways and citations at /reports.json.
The Production Climate series concludes
The compound trajectory and the annual State of the Solar Climate close the ten-part series, joining every environmental variable to yield and tariff.
New Ecosystem page mapping the network as one instrument at three altitudes: Solar Analytica for the market, review.solar for the product, wattbench for the field.
Refocused the Methodology page on Solar Analytica's data-research standards; the product-scoring rubric now lives solely on review.solar.
The demand side and the module roadmap
New report: Global Residential Electricity Prices, read as the demand side of solar economics.
New report: Monocrystalline Silicon to 2030, a low/base/high scenario model built for procurement and capital planning rather than a single confident forecast.
Published the live data layer behind the reports: a 40-market climate-adjusted yield baseline, NASA and NOAA climate pillars, the global electricity generation mix, and residential retail tariffs across 92 cities.
The Production Climate series begins
Launched The Production Climate, a weekly series reading the environmental variables between the sun and the socket against twenty years of NASA and NOAA record: the heat penalty first, then brightening and dimming, the variable years and what P90 protects, beam and diffuse light, soiling, smoke, wind cooling, and storms and extremes through the spring.
Global Behind-the-Meter Storage
New report: Global Behind-the-Meter Storage, the 2025 data, read for where residential storage is heading.
The Reports library reactivates
Reopened the Solar Analytica Reports library, beginning with The Lithium-Ion Residential Battery Decade, a technology and safety classification framework for specifying residential storage.
Repositioned the homepage, the About page, and the review.solar and wattbench mission pages around the evidence-first data-company identity.
Tools, data & reference expansion
New cross-brand Fault Code Finder: search 426 documented codes across all 12 brands in one place, then jump to the full entry.
New installer calculators: string sizing (MPPT window + maximum system voltage) and DC:AC ratio.
New Solar Standards Reference covering the key AS/NZS and IEC standards behind a compliant install.
Technical diagrams added to the inverter explainers.
Open data: the full fault-code library as JSON and CSV, plus an RSS feed.
Rebuilt the footer (link-heavy, multi-column), added site-wide SVG pattern textures and more whitespace.
Platform foundation
Wired up the backend (Supabase + Resend): the contact form now stores enquiries and emails them; newsletter sign-up with double opt-in; passwordless accounts.
Added Privacy, Terms and Disclaimer pages.
Deepened SEO/GEO: per-page OpenGraph images, fuller structured data, key-takeaways blocks, and llms.txt for AI assistants.