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02 Apr 2018
We apologise for the downtime over Easter weekend. Our host suffered technical problems in their Frankfurt datacenter, causing intermittent issues throughout the 1st and 2nd of April. Everything is back online now, so you can get back to your renewables data!
30 Mar 2018
Today we are launching a new model for Renewables.ninja which delivers raw weather data, such as temperature, rainfall and cloud cover. This works in the same ways as the wind farm and solar PV simulations: you can download weather data for a specific location with our point-and-click map, or you can select ‘Country’ mode to download pre-made datasets.
Eight weather variables are available in this initial release: temperature, rainfall, …
29 Mar 2018
We have been working on our documentation to reduce the learning curve for the Renewables.ninja API, and extend usability to people without a programming background.
Since we enabled API keys for all users, it has been great to see a growing share of simulations being run through the API. We now have example code in R, and publicise the ‘Ninja Automator’ code. This is an R script automates …
27 Oct 2017
11 Aug 2017
For the past few months, we have been running a closed beta test, offering four years of data. Thanks to all our users that took part in testing! Since this ran smoothly, we are happy to announce that as of today, the Ninja is able to serve 17 years of weather and renewables data – from 2000 through to 2016.
This expanded data set is now available to all registered …