Introduction to Prospect

  • Updated on Apr 1, 2025
  • Published on Feb 18, 2025
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We will introduce you to the Prospect application, its user interface, and how to work with it.

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.

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.

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 on the map.

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

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

  6. Map data: Solar resource data are displayed in this section. Every parameter has its map layer you can select in the map selector (step no.3).

  7. Help center: Contact our support, accessd ocumentation, or submit feedback.

Projects page

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

  2. Project tools: You can open selected project, rename it, assign labels to it, compare it to another project, open the sidebar map to see its location, and more.  

  3. Individual project options: Selected actions from the project tools are also available using the three-dot menu.

  4. Multiple project selector: Use it to select all listed projects at once to perform bulk actions.

  5. Project access: Icons indicate the number of users with access to the project. Click it to manage the access.

Compare page

The project comparison feature on the Compare page lets you compare multiple projects to revise their data to help you in chosing the right location for your project. You can add projets 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 copared projects columns show the differences.

  4. Add another project to the comparison.

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: Perfom operations such as renaming the project, archiving, attaching labels, and more.

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