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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 the …
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 …
Today we are pleased to unveil the next generation of the Renewables.ninja website! The website is
now cleaner, fully mobile responsive, and features a new “country mode” interface to help
you easily select and download nationally aggregated wind and solar output. In addition, in light of user feedback, the wind data in the new country mode is now separated into onshore and offshore.
When visiting the site you will now …
We are pleased to announce that the two peer-reviewed papers describing the Renewables.ninja models were published today in the journal Energy. These papers describe the underlying models that generate wind and solar time series data, demonstrate their validation across Europe, and then use them to study the impacts of wind and solar power across Europe in the near future.
In Pfenninger and Staffell (2016) we modelled the hourly output …
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