Introduction to Prospect

Solargis Prospect application

Solargis Prospect is a powerful tool designed to help you evaluate the solar potential of your photovoltaic (PV) sites worldwide. It offers access to comprehensive solar, meteorological, and environmental data, enabling you to estimate solar yields and assess potential gains and losses during the pre-feasibility phase of your project.

Key features include reliable and accurate solar data, fast site comparisons, a comprehensive environmental overview, and a solar power calculator with analytics. Additionally, Prospect supports collaboration and multilingual capabilities, making it an ideal solution for global solar project development.

Feature availability in subscription tiers

The granularity of the data and availability of services depends on your subscription. This also applies to map layers - the full list is available for Professional subscription only. The subscription stages and included features are outlined here.

Tip: Before starting to work with the Prospect application, ensure you have selected the correct company account. The visibility of the projects and availability of features depends on the selected company and its subscription.

Prospect interface

Map page

You will be presented with the Map page upon opening the application. This is where you will choose locations, view its solar resource data, and create your projects.

1. Main top navigation menu: Select between Map page, Projects page where you can see and manage all your projects, and Compare page where you can compare projects.  

2. Sidebar navigation menu: Filter displayed projects to show active, recent, or archived projects or projects with particular labels.

3. Map layer selector: Select a layer parameter to display. Available map layers are described here.

4. Search locations: You can search for locations by name or by coordinates.

5. Save selected location as a project: Your selected location will be added to a new project. Its address and coordinates are outlined above the button.

6. Map layers data: It shows relevant map layer parameter values.

7. Help center: Contact our support, access documentation, or submit feedback.

Projects page

The Projects page is where you can manage your projects all in one place. You can view their basic data and change parameters you want to see, rename them, change owners, assign labels, and much more.

1. Projects list: All projects are listed here, providing information such as the project name, owner, date created, and more. You can select which columns to display using the icon to the top right.

2. Sidebar navigation menu: Filter displayed projects to show active, recent, or archived projects or projects with particular labels.

3. Selected projects tools: Top navigation lets you compare the selected projects, change project owner, add labels, or archive them. Additionally, you can enter project properties, rename it, or export the sites data as CSV from the three-dot menu next to the top navigation. These actions can be performed on multiple projects at once.

4. Selected project details: Displays details of the selected project along with the location map.

5. Project display options: Use provided buttons to show projects as a list or on the map, and show/hide project information details.

Compare page

The project comparison feature on the Compare page lets you compare multiple projects to revise their data to help you choose the right location for your project. You can add projects to the comparison directly on the Comparison page, or while on the Projects page.

1. Sidebar navigation menu: Choose parameters to compare, e.g., PV configuration, solar resource data, PV performance, and more.

2. Compared projects: The cards of projects added to the comparison. Clicking it will highlight its data in the comparison tables.

3. Comparison data: The data is displayed next to each other for better visibility. The selected project’s values are shown and the compared projects columns show the differences.

4. Add another project to the comparison.

Project analysis

Once you open a project, its analysis data will load, and you can start exploring it. The project page offers detailed project location info, solar resource data and PV performance analysis, or financial analysis. You can also configure your PV energy system here.

1. Sidebar navigation menu: This is where you can select parameters you want to display. The project overview is shown by default. You can examine solar resource data, PV electricity and PV performance, inspect the financial analysis, go to reports or data downloads.

2. Main data section: The information displayed here depend on the selection in the sidebar navigation.

3. Project tools: Perform operations such as renaming the project, archiving, attaching labels, and more.

Prospect reports and data downloads

Prospect offers a facility to create comprehensive reports and download your project data in CSV format for PVSyst.