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Four years of data, local time zones, and more to come soon

31 Mar 2017

We are working behind the scenes to get Renewables.ninja ready for its next major update. In the meantime, we are beginning to roll out improvements made in the course of this work.

Many of our users have requested more data, so they can expand their research to cover more than a single year. So, we are conducting a closed beta test with four years of data (2012-2015). Contact us …

New papers are published

21 Sep 2016

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 …