What you can ask
- “What does NASA POWER have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent NASA POWER records and put them in a table.”
- “What does NASA POWER cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources) — global solar, wind, and meteorological resource data for renewable-energy siting. Satellite + reanalysis climate data via point (lat/lon) queries. Long-term climatology (monthly + annual averages — the siting workhorse), plus daily and monthly time series. 152 RE-community parameters; defaults cover solar GHI/DNI/clear-sky, wind at 50 m and 10 m, and temperature. No auth.
Connector ID nasa-power
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (4)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
getClimatology
readLong-term monthly + annual climate averages. No dates; use daily or monthly resource data.
Required paramslatlonArgs: lat, lon, parameters? (<=20, comma-separated), community? (RE|SB|AG)
getDailyResource
readDaily solar/wind/temperature time series for a point
Required paramslatlonstartendstart/end YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD. Missing days (about 5-7 day lag) are null.
getMonthlyResource
readMonthly means for a point across a year range
Required paramslatlonstartendstart/end in YYYY. Key YYYY-ANN is the annual mean; missing months are null.
getServiceInfo
readStatic API overview — endpoints, key RE parameters, communities, date formats