Energy Dashboard – Solar & Wind Forecasting for Operators

The Specialised Energy Dashboard for solar & wind: production forecasts and risks

The Energy Dashboard is a highly customisable, specialised platform built on OpenWeather’s precise environmental data that forecasts renewable energy output and assesses site-specific environmental risks

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  • Green Energy Production

    Real-time monitoring of energy generation potential with detailed forecasting models that account for weather patterns, seasonal variations, and installation-specific parameters for accurate production planning.

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  • Risk Management

    Advanced algorithms continuously assess environmental threats to your installations using multiple weather parameters, government alerts, and historical data patterns. The system provides proactive warnings before conditions become dangerous. 

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Advantages

Energy Dashboard benefits

Stay ahead of risk with continuous, site-level weather and alert monitoring that issues proactive warnings to protect crews and avoid unnecessary shutdowns. Real-time, site-specific forecasting delivers accurate production plans for smarter scheduling, tighter maintenance windows, and more reliable output.

  • Live weather intelligence with site-level risk

    Ingests frequent weather and official alerts, maps them to your coordinates, assigns a Red/Amber/Green score per site, and issues proactive warnings with recommended actions.

  • PV and wind forecasting with performance analytics

    Models irradiance and wind for your hardware, compares expected vs actual output, tracks PR and capacity factor, and provides hourly forecasts for planning.

  • Fleet operations command center

    An interactive map and prioritized site list surface what needs attention, with drill-downs, event history, alerts, and workflows to coordinate crews and maintenance.

Included capabilities and modules

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    Smart Risk Scoring

    Continuously updated risk levels based on live weather, alerts, and site-specific parameters.

    Get proactive warnings for storms, icing, lightning, and other critical threats.

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    Solar Energy Monitoring

    Predict solar power output using real-time irradiance (GHI, DNI, DHI) and panel orientation.

    Plan generation, detect underperformance, and optimize efficiency with confidence.

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    Wind Energy Monitoring

    Model wind energy potential across hub heights with terrain-aware wind profiling.

    Support turbine placement, output planning, and safe operation across all conditions.

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    Weather Intelligence

    Access accurate, energy-focused weather data from OpenWeather's global network.

    Includes forecasts, real-time conditions, and government-issued alerts for every site.

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    Interactive Installations Map

    Unified map view with real-time risk color-coding, live weather overlays, and fast access to status per asset.

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The everyday workflow is simple with Energy Dashboard

Add each site with precise coordinates and specs. The system validates inputs, builds a baseline, starts real-time monitoring with hourly risk updates, and continually compares actual vs predicted performance. Built-in checklists, quick troubleshooting, and training keep teams moving.

Energy Operations Managers

Use Case: Monitor and prioritize risks across a distributed portfolio of solar and wind installations.

How the Dashboard Helps: Automatically flags high-risk sites with real-time weather alerts and risk scores. Enables centralized scheduling of maintenance teams based on forecasted downtime windows and site urgency.

Value: Reduces unexpected outages, improves field coordination, and streamlines operations across regions.

What makes Energy Dashboard special

  • Faster, fresher signal.

    Current conditions refresh about every 10 minutes with sub-5-minute observation latency, so your view isn’t stale when weather turns volatile. Hourly forecasts roll 48 hours ahead with 1-hour resolution; so you can staff, stage, and schedule with confidence.

  • Proven accuracy, quantified.

    We publish clear targets of ±1 °C temperature, ±5% humidity for current conditions; 85–95% accuracy in the 0–6-hour window; so you can defend decisions to operations, finance, and insurers.

  • Instant, polygon-level alerts.

    Government weather warnings arrive and propagate in near real time (often under a minute) and include precise polygon boundaries. That means you don’t shut down an entire county because of a storm two towns over; you act on exactly what intersects your assets.

  • True site specificity.

    We intersect those alert polygons with each installation’s exact coordinates and calculate proximity, path tracking, and impact timing turning a generic warning into a clear “what, where, when” for your crews.

  • A data pipeline you can trust.

    Behind the scenes is a full QA stack: validation, cross-station checks, gap filling, bias correction, temporal smoothing, spatial interpolation, and even model ensembles. Bottom line: fewer outliers, fewer surprises, fewer bad calls.

  • Built for renewables, not just “weather.”

    We don’t stop at temperature and wind. For solar we ingest GHI/DNI/DHI and other atmospheric factors; for wind we model multi-altitude profiles and map them to your turbine power curves. Result: production forecasts that match your equipment and terrain, not a generic grid square.

  • Global scale, consistent results.

    With coverage drawing on 200,000+ stations and decades of history, you standardize your playbook across regions and no more juggling different feeds market by market.

  • Safety bias when it counts.

    Our “MAX rule” always takes the higher of the detailed environmental assessment or the official alert severity. If either says “this is critical,” nothing masks it and you never miss the big one.

Energy Dashboard overview

Picture your entire solar and wind fleet on one screen, every site lit up with a clear status, the risky ones floated to the top, and practical next steps spelled out for your team. That’s the Energy Dashboard: an enterprise-grade monitoring and risk platform built specifically for renewables, combining real-time weather, operational risk analysis, and production forecasting so you can protect people and keep megawatts on plan.

The Dashboard continuously watches the environment around each asset using advanced algorithms and official government alerts, then turns that signal into an easy Red-Amber-Green score from 0 to 100. The engine literally takes the higher of two calculations (a detailed environmental assessment or the official alert severity), so critical conditions never get buried. Scores update at least hourly, and every risk band such as Low, Moderate, High, Extreme, comes with clear guidance, from “monitor and carry on” to “shut down and evacuate.”

When weather turns, you see it and you know what to do. “Installations Requiring Attention” automatically surfaces your two highest-risk sites and expands to a full list with color-coded borders that match the current risk level, so dispatch decisions are instant. The fleet map paints every site by current risk and overlays live alert polygons; click to see the details, cluster dense regions, pan/zoom smoothly, or jump straight to a single asset. It’s a fast, visual triage tool built for storm days.

Accuracy starts at the data layer. The system pulls live conditions and 48-hour forecasts from the OpenWeather API, integrates government-issued weather warnings with precise polygon boundaries, and refreshes conditions about every 10 minutes. Under the hood there’s a full quality-assurance pipeline of validation, cross-checks across stations, bias correction, temporal smoothing, even model ensembles so the inputs you act on are trustworthy. Alert processing classifies Minor/Moderate/Severe/Extreme, tracks storm paths and proximity, and triggers immediately when authorities update a warning.

For solar teams, the Dashboard “speaks PV.” It uses specialized solar radiation data such as GHI, DNI, and DHI, to forecast production and compare actual output against theoretical, making it obvious when cloud cover, heat, or dust is dragging you down. You’ll also see the design and setup factors that matter day to day: panel tilt and azimuth, power density, and live performance ratio. Those inputs don’t just drive forecasts; they influence risk weighting, so a site’s unique build is reflected in its risk score. And because dust storms, extreme heat, hail, and snow/ice are modeled explicitly, you can plan cleaning cycles, heat-stress mitigation, or snow removal before they cost you production.

Wind operators get equally deep intelligence. You’ll see hub height, rated power, and multi-altitude wind profiling tied directly to your turbine power curves, so generation forecasts aren’t generic, they’re specific to your machines and terrain. Safety features monitor for storm-force winds (with typical shutdown thresholds), icing conditions, lightning risk, and turbulence that can stress components, helping you decide exactly when to feather, when to pause maintenance, and when to shut down. Capacity-factor and efficiency views round out the operational picture, from the next 15 minutes to the next 24 hours.

Because numbers tell the story, the charts are built for action. Solar and wind views include hourly and 15-minute generation traces with weather overlays, plus 24-hour forecasts with confidence intervals ideal for scheduling crews, lining up curtailment decisions, or aligning with trading and grid commitments.

The everyday workflow is simple. Add each installation with accurate coordinates and specs; the system validates inputs, builds a baseline efficiency profile, and starts real-time monitoring with hourly risk updates. From there it continuously compares actual vs. predicted performance, so you’re always learning and tightening operations. Best-practice checklists and a lightweight troubleshooting guide (from “verify GPS” to “update parameters”) keep your team moving, and training resources are built in.

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