Solar Position API

Solar Position API

The Solar Position API unlocks the power of the sun's precise location data. Seamlessly integrating into applications, it provides real-time information on solar azimuth, elevation, and twilight times, enabling accurate solar energy harnessing and optimizing solar-powered systems. Revolutionize your energy solutions with this essential tool for solar professionals and enthusiasts alike.

API description

About the API:

The Solar Position API is a cutting-edge solution for harnessing the power of solar energy with precision and efficiency. Designed for developers, researchers, and solar energy enthusiasts, this comprehensive API delivers accurate and real-time solar position data anywhere on Earth. By providing detailed information about the sun's azimuth, elevation, and twilight times, it enables users to optimize solar panel orientation, track the sun's movement throughout the day, and enhance the performance of solar energy systems.

Whether you're designing solar power plants, developing solar tracking devices, or creating renewable energy applications, this API offers unparalleled accuracy. Its seamless integration capabilities make it easy to incorporate solar position data into various platforms, enabling users to make informed decisions about solar energy utilization. With this API, you can enhance the efficiency of solar panels, improve energy yield, and reduce costs by aligning your systems perfectly with the sun's path.

Additionally, the Solar Position API is equipped with historical data, allowing users to analyze past solar positions for research purposes or long-term energy planning. Stay ahead in the renewable energy revolution by leveraging this powerful tool, ensuring your solar projects are not only sustainable but also optimized for maximum energy output.

 

What your API receives and what your API provides (input/output)?

Pass the latitude and longitude and timestamp of your choice, and receive the sun's position. 

 

What are the most common use cases of this API?

  1. Solar Panel Optimization: Solar power systems can utilize the Solar Position API to dynamically adjust the tilt and rotation of solar panels throughout the day, ensuring they are always positioned optimally to capture maximum sunlight. By aligning panels with the sun's position, energy yield is significantly increased, leading to higher efficiency and lower electricity costs.

  2. Solar Energy Forecasting: Energy companies and grid operators can use historical solar position data from the API to predict future solar energy generation patterns. By understanding how solar radiation varies over time, they can anticipate energy production, plan grid stability, and optimize energy distribution, ensuring a reliable supply of solar power to consumers.

  3. Urban Planning and Architecture: Architects and urban planners can incorporate solar position data into their designs to optimize the placement of buildings, parks, and urban infrastructure. By understanding the sun's path throughout the year, they can create environmentally friendly spaces that maximize natural daylight and minimize energy consumption, promoting sustainable urban development.

  4. Agricultural Planning: Farmers and agricultural researchers can leverage the API to assess sunlight availability in different areas of their farms. By analyzing solar position data, they can plan crop placement, optimize greenhouse designs, and improve agricultural productivity. This information is valuable for precision agriculture, helping farmers make data-driven decisions to enhance crop yields and reduce resource usage.

  5. Solar Tourism and Recreation: Tourism agencies and outdoor event organizers can use the Solar Position API to plan solar-powered events and activities. From outdoor concerts to camping trips, understanding the sun's position in real-time allows organizers to position stages, tents, and recreational areas to maximize sunlight exposure. This ensures a sustainable and eco-friendly experience for attendees, promoting the use of renewable energy in outdoor events and tourism initiatives.

 

Are there any limitations to your plans?

Besides the number of API calls, there are no other limitations.

API Documentation

Endpoints


Obtain the solar position including azimuth and elevation for a specified geographical location and time.

 



                                                                            
GET https://zylalabs.com/api/2884/solar+position+api/3006/get+position
                                                                            
                                                                        

Get Position - Endpoint Features
Object Description
lat [Required] Latitude.
lng [Required] Longitude.
dateTime [Required]
Test Endpoint

API EXAMPLE RESPONSE

       
                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            {"azimuth":146.513667274154,"elevation":29.172467064891503,"time":"09:15"}
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    

Get Position - CODE SNIPPETS


curl --location --request GET 'https://zylalabs.com/api/2884/solar+position+api/3006/get+position?lat=54.410807&lng=10.211408&dateTime=2023-09-27T09:15:00' --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' 

    

API Access Key & Authentication

After signing up, every developer is assigned a personal API access key, a unique combination of letters and digits provided to access to our API endpoint. To authenticate with the Solar Position API REST API, simply include your bearer token in the Authorization header.

Headers

Header Description
Authorization [Required] Should be Bearer access_key. See "Your API Access Key" above when you are subscribed.


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The Solar Position API is a powerful tool that provides developers with accurate and real-time data on the sun's position anywhere on Earth. It offers detailed information about solar azimuth, elevation, and twilight times, enabling precise solar energy calculations and optimizations.

The solar azimuth provided by the API is calculated as the compass direction from a specific location to the sun, measured in degrees clockwise from the north. It helps users determine the sun's horizontal position in the sky, crucial for solar panel orientation and tracking systems.

Yes, the API offers historical solar position data, allowing users to analyze past sun positions. This feature is valuable for research, energy production analysis, and long-term planning of solar-powered systems.

Absolutely, the API is designed to be language-agnostic, making it compatible with a wide range of programming languages. It offers flexibility for developers to seamlessly integrate solar position data into their applications, regardless of the language they are using.

The solar position data provided by the API is updated in real-time, ensuring accuracy and reliability for applications that require up-to-the-minute information about the sun's position.

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