Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') has been expanded to cover new areas in Japan, Philippines, and Mexico.

For more details, see the Solar API coverage map.

Exact Quality Parameter

Users can now specify the exact quality of data layers they would like returned. dataLayers.get has a new parameter called exactQualityRequired. When it is set to true, the quality indicated by the requiredQuality field will be returned if available. Otherwise, exactQualityRequired is set to false by default. In this case, the endpoints will behave normally and return the highest quality available data.

Announcement

Utility Incentives and Utility Electricity Rates Update

United States utility incentive data and utility electricity rates have been updated using data from Clean Power Research. You can access the new utility incentive amounts for each building in the UtilityIncentive field of the buildingInsights.findClosest response. The utility electricity rates are not surfaced in the API but are used in calculations for the following fields of the buildingInsights.findClosest response:

• leasingSavings

• cashPurchaseSavings

• financedPurchaseSavings

• costOfElectricityWithoutSolar

• remainingLifetimeUtilityBill

• solarPercentage

• percentageExportedToGrid

Changed

Panel Dimensions and Capacity Update

Panel dimensions and capacity have been updated to match industry standards. The following changes are:

• Panel height (meters): 1.65 → 1.879
• Panel width (meters): 0.992 → 1.045
• Panel capacity (watts): 250 → 400

We recommend that you continue to get these values from the panelCapacityWatts, panelHeightMeters, and panelWidthMeters fields of the buildingInsights.findClosest response.

Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') has been expanded to cover new areas in the following regions: Hawaii, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Antigua and Barbados.

For more details, see the Solar API coverage map.

Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') has been expanded to cover new areas in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, New Zealand.

For more details, see the Solar API coverage map.

Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') has been expanded to cover new areas in the following 21 states in the US: AK, AL, CO, DE, IA, KS, ME, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OR, RI, SD, UT, VT, WI, WA, and WY.

For more details, see the Solar API coverage map.

Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') has been expanded to cover new areas in the following regions:

• United States: AR, AZ, CT, DC, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV
• Canada
• Poland
• Austria
• Switzerland

For more details, see the Solar API coverage map.

Expanded Solar API coverage

Medium-quality data coverage (requests made with requiredQuality=MEDIUM and corresponding responses with imagery_quality: 'MEDIUM') now includes most of California, Texas, Massachusetts, and Illinois. For more information, see the Solar API coverage map.

Solar API

Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Solar API. See the Release Notes for information about this release and for all other releases.

If you are a new user, see Set Up in the Google Cloud Console to start the installation process.