3TIER Product Catalog

From project-specific engagements to global-scale studies, 3TIER Advanced Applications gives you flexible access to the renewable energy expertise, resource data, and computational horsepower of 3TIER—enabling you and your organization to make better decisions about renewable energy projects, policy, investment, and integration. More

3TIER's FirstLook API (Application Programming Interface) enables you to integrate FirstLook’s wind and solar renewable energy resource data into your own customer experiences and user applications while retaining the credibility of scientifically derived, third party data. More

Plan for seasonal variability cycles at a specific location with this assessment of wind speed and power output potential. The FirstLook Professional Report is our top-tier prospecting report, offering you the highest level of information available to make critical decisions about your wind project. The report compiles wind speed and power output information on multiple time-scales and includes a data file based on our 10-year dataset. More

The FirstLook Standard Wind Report is our basic prospecting report, offering you all the wind resource information you need to make initial decisions about your wind project. This assessment of wind speed and power output potential includes detailed information on the seasonal variation of your resource. More

The FullView Wind Project Resource Assessment report gives you an in-depth understanding of the long-term wind behavior and expected generation potential for your entire project. It is based on a high-resolution, numerical weather prediction (NWP) model simulation for your entire project location over a time period of 10 to 40 years. When one year of on-site observational data is available, 3TIER can apply advanced statistical techniques to correct model bias. The report provides comprehensive insight into the temporal variability and production capacity of your entire project, while also accounting for long-term oscillations such as Niño anomalies. It includes long-term average values on a turbine-by-turbine basis as well as the spatial variability of your resource. More

The FullView Wind Site Climate Variability Analysis report gives you an in-depth understanding of the long-term wind behavior and expected generation potential for one location, typically a met tower. It is based on a high-resolution, numerical weather prediction (NWP) model simulation, which can be performed for any location over a time period of 10 to 40 years, even when observations are not yet available. When the client can provide one year of on-site observational data, 3TIER can also apply advanced statistical techniques to correct model bias. Overall, this report provides comprehensive insight into the temporal variability and production capacity of the wind resource, while also accounting for long-term oscillations such as Niño anomalies. More

This high-resolution mapping analysis provides information on the spatial and temporal wind behavior over any area worldwide. The analysis does not require existing observational data, and is offered at a customized hub height and model resolution. At courser resolutions this report facilitates site prospecting, and at a finer scales it can be used to optimize met tower siting, perform high-level planning, and determine project feasibility. More

To maximize the production and revenue potential of your operational wind project, it is critical to know what lies ahead. 3TIER's Basic Wind Forecasting enables quicker decision-making with powerful web-based forecasts, providing vital power, wind speed, and weather information so you know what's coming a full week in advance. More

To maximize the production and revenue potential of your operational wind project, it is critical to know what lies ahead. 3TIER’s PowerSight Premium Wind Forecasting provides the accurate production forecast information you need to make more informed decisions for power grid integration, market-based energy trading, and overall system optimization. With model correction based on real-time on and off-site observational data, this package includes the most precise hour-ahead forecast in the industry. More

Get a competitive edge in an increasingly wind-driven energy market with region-wide forecasts of both day- and week-ahead power production. Designed for energy traders and electric grid system operators, this forecast package reduces uncertainty and helps users make quick and informed decisions about forward market conditions, energy pricing, and portfolio management. More

Save time and money with a consistent long-term reference dataset for use in MCP analysis. Our rigorously validated dataset has a demonstrated 25% improvement over other available data sources and increases the accuracy of your wind resource assessment. Available globally, the Reference Wind Time-series includes a continuous 10+ year record of hourly wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, and temperature data to deepen your understanding of a potential project's long-term variability. More

Wind Direction GIS Data Layers are an invaluable application for wind power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, providing you all the information of a wind rose in a format that permits in-depth analysis over large land areas. More

Portfolio Climate Variability Analysis (PCVA) uses state-of-art modeling technology to put on-site observational data into a long-term perspective in near real-time. It can be deployed across your entire portfolio of met towers to streamline broad-scale assessment and enable robust internal analysis with a cost-effective package. PCVA can be implemented for several to several hundred met towers, even if the time duration of observational data is different for each tower. More

Wind Power Density GIS Data Layers are an invaluable application for wind power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, permitting in-depth analysis of energy production capability for all the projects in a portfolio while also saving precious time in identifying the best locations for wind development. More

The Wind Prospecting Tools are a powerful, web-based application with a simple point and click map for easily accessing renewable resource data. It is the go-to tool for developers, manufacturers, and installers to quickly explore wind potential anywhere in the world without having to visit sites or collect observational data. More

Wind Speed GIS Data Layers are an invaluable application for wind power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, permitting in-depth spatial analysis for available wind speed saving you precious time in identifying the best locations for wind development. More

From project-specific engagements to global-scale studies, 3TIER Advanced Applications gives you flexible access to the renewable energy expertise, resource data, and computational horsepower of 3TIER—enabling you and your organization to make better decisions about renewable energy projects, policy, investment, and integration. More

Vastly improve your internal analysis methods by incorporating scientifically derived time-series data to discover the intensity and variability of multiple forms of solar irradiance at your site. The 3TIER Solar Time-series delivers the information you need to perform in-depth assessment for a residential or light commercial solar installation and make informed decisions about your portfolio of site locations. This time-series offers over a decade of hourly values for Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI), Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), and Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DIF) to deepen your understanding of a potential project's viability. More

3TIER's FirstLook API (Application Programming Interface) enables you to integrate FirstLook’s wind and solar renewable energy resource data into your own customer experiences and user applications while retaining the credibility of scientifically derived, third party data. More

Get a better understanding of your solar resource and project viability with a more in-depth analysis of the intensity and variability of irradiance, wind, and temperature. This solar report offers insight into the expected project capability at your site and how other meteorological variables, such as extreme winds and temperature, will affect overall energy generation. More

Maximize your certainty in the viability of your solar project with accurate, high-resolution data on multiple meteorological variables that affect your project’s production potential. Based on the most advanced solar dataset and atmospheric modeling techniques, the FullView Solar Site Resource Assessment is our top-tier solar assessment, offering you more in-depth analysis of all the environmental factors that affect overall energy generation. To refine the results, on-site observations are incorporated to calibrate the model run and improve our satellite derived irradiance values using advanced statistical techniques. The final report provides a detailed validation of our findings and methodology. More

Solar DIF GIS Data Layers are an invaluable tool for solar power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, permitting in-depth spatial analysis while also saving precious time in identifying the best locations for solar development. More

For solar thermal and tracking photovoltaic development, 3TIER's Solar DNI GIS Data Layers are an invaluable application for power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, permitting in-depth spatial analysis while also saving precious time in identifying the best locations. More

For solar photovoltaic development, 3TIER's Solar GHI GIS Data Layers are an invaluable application for power developers, utilities, and transmission planners, permitting in-depth spatial analysis while also saving precious time in identifying the best locations. More

From project-specific engagements to global-scale studies, 3TIER Advanced Applications gives you flexible access to the renewable energy expertise, resource data, and computational horsepower of 3TIER—enabling you and your organization to make better decisions about renewable energy projects, policy, investment, and integration. More

A single, web-based application for all the information you need to plan for basin-wide flow volumes and anticipate overall energy output. This user-friendly suite of forecasts provides a regional view of the hydropower year, improving long-term energy optimization planning and providing an advanced outlook of market conditions and energy pricing. More