Solar Potential in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Estimate PV yield per location. Returns usable sunlight hours and best direction — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

solarpotential.xlsxsample data

C2fx=VERVE("solarpotential", A2, B2, "field", "coordinates.latitude")

Lat

Lon

Coordinates › Latitude

Coordinates › Longitude

Usable Hours › Avg Daily Usable Sunlight Hours

37.7749

-122.4194

37.7749

-122.4194

12.19

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Conditions per location

Put your cities in a column and fill =VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.latitude") beside them — every row shows live conditions, so an ops or travel sheet reflects the real world, not last week.

Logistics & scheduling

Gate a plan on the weather: read the forecast into a cell and let an IF formula flag rows that need a backup date.

Auto-refreshing board

Set the sheet to refresh on a schedule and Solar Potential keeps a status board current without anyone re-typing a thing.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.latitude")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.latitude")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Coordinates › Latitude
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.latitude")
Coordinates › Longitude
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.longitude")
Usable Hours › Avg Daily Usable Sunlight Hours
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "usableHours.avgDailyUsableSunlightHours")
Usable Hours › Yearly Usable Sunlight Hours RawPremium
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "usableHours.yearlyUsableSunlightHoursRaw")
Usable Hours › Adjusted Yearly Usable Sunlight HoursPremium
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "usableHours.adjustedYearlyUsableSunlightHours")
Best Direction
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "bestDirection")
Cloud FactorPremium
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "cloudFactor")
Disclaimer
=VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "disclaimer")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Solar Potential, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Solar Potential into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("solarpotential", 37.7749, -122.4194, "field", "coordinates.latitude") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Solar Potential?

Solar Potential returns coordinates.latitude, coordinates.longitude, usableHours.avgDailyUsableSunlightHours, bestDirection and disclaimer — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Which Solar Potential fields need a paid plan?

usableHours.yearlyUsableSunlightHoursRaw, usableHours.adjustedYearlyUsableSunlightHours and cloudFactor are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Solar Potential at once?

Yes. Put your lat values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Solar Potential cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Solar Potential work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Solar Potential

Conditions per location

Logistics & scheduling

Auto-refreshing board

Solar Potential, answered

Put Solar Potential in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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