Solar Radiation Observations in Ballarat, Updated Every 15 Minutes

Real-time solar radiation observations collected by sensors distributed in Ballarat. The dataset is updated every 15 minutes and provided by the City of Ballarat for informative purposes. The City of Ballarat is not an official source of weather information.

Use Cases

• Modeling local solar energy generation potential based on historical radiation observations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of solar radiation based on the 15-minute update frequency.
• Visualizing spatial distribution of solar radiation across Ballarat based on distributed sensor data.

Strengths

• Data is updated every 15 minutes, providing near real-time observations.
• Available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats including SHP, GEOJSON, CSV, KML, XLS, and JSON.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data provider explicitly states it is not an official source of weather information.

Provenance

Source

City of Ballarat

Collection Method

Collected in real time by distributed sensors.

Freshness

Updated every 15 minutes; last updated 2026-03-19 17:05:38.755499.

Geography

Ballarat