Terms of Use
The terms for using SolarCostData: what our live and reference figures are, what they are not, data licences, and the limits of our liability.
Reviewed
By using SolarCostData you agree to these terms. In short: the figures here are provisional public data and information, not advice, and you rely on them at your own risk.
Information, not advice
- Not trading or investment advice. Prices, generation and demand figures describe what operators have published. They are not recommendations to buy, sell or hedge electricity or anything else.
- Not operational advice. The data is provisional, delayed in some markets and may be revised. Do not use it to run plant, dispatch equipment or make safety decisions; use the operator’s official systems.
- Not financial or legal advice. The U.S. reference pages on electricity rates and net metering summarise public data and rules. Your utility’s tariff and the rules that apply to you are the authority for your own situation.
- Not our forecast. We make no forecasts of our own. Where AEMO’s published pre-dispatch prices appear, they are labelled “forecast by AEMO” and remain AEMO’s.
Accuracy, and its limits
Figures trace to named primary sources, carry a Metered, Derived or Estimated badge and an “as of” time, and are checked by automated quality gates before they are shown. Operators still revise their data, sources go quiet, and feeds can be wrong at the source. Content is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, and we do not warrant that any figure is current, complete or error-free at the moment you read it. When a source stops publishing, the page says the figure is paused.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, SolarCostData and its publisher are not liable for any loss arising from use of or reliance on this site’s content. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the site is to stop using it.
Data licences and permitted use
You may read, link to, and quote our text with attribution to SolarCostData. You may not scrape the site wholesale for republication, present our pages or modified versions of them as your own, or suggest that we or any data provider endorse your use.
The underlying data belongs to the organisations that publish it and remains under their licences and terms, which we name on the pages that use it, for example the Elexon BMRS data licence, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 for Energi Data Service, AEMO’s copyright permissions, and the Open Government Data License, Taiwan v1.0. If you reuse that data, take it from the original source and follow its licence. Showing it here does not imply that any operator has reviewed or approved this site.
Third-party links
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Advertising
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Changes
We may update these terms; the reviewed date of this page reflects the latest revision. Continued use after a change means you accept it.
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