FirstLook Prospecting is a free online tool that provides access to initial solar and wind resource data through high-resolution maps.
Extended datasets available through the FirstLook API include average annual wind power density, and monthly average wind speed, temperature, air density and power density. For solar resource information, extended datasets include annual and monthly DNI, GHI and diffuse irradiance values.
The FirstLook API enables clients to develop personal applications that integrate renewable resource information into tools that facilitate the decision-making process, such as internal and customer-facing sales tools, product selection tools, project design tools, and financial modeling tools.
“FirstLook Prospecting is already the ‘go-to’ sales tool for residential, commercial and utilityscale renewable energy installers and manufacturers,” said Kenneth Westrick, chief executive officer and founder of 3TIER, the global leader in renewable energy assessment and forecasting information. “It enables renewable energy companies to better educate their own customers on the value of their onsite wind and solar resources, inform hardware and installation decisions, and calculate returns on investment.
“The FirstLook API offers access to the initial wind and solar assessment data that is available through FirstLook Prospecting, as well as extended datasets that are not publically available. Companies can use the FirstLook API to integrate these datasets into their own customer experiences, developing added value and more complex applications tailored to the needs of their customers.”
“With the FirstLook API, companies have access to wind resource data for any location worldwide and solar resource data for any location in the Western Hemisphere,” said Christian Sarason, FirstLook product manager. “The FirstLook API gives companies the power to utilize the most accurate, consistent and comprehensive datasets ever created as part of their own customer engagement, while retaining the credibility of 3TIER’s scientifically derived, third party resource information.”
“By plugging into the power of FirstLook, companies can provide their clients with the most dependable resource information available and ultimately shorten the process of determining where to invest in renewable power,” Sarason said.
