Wegaw

Wegaw — Satellite-derived Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) and related near real-time geospatial hydrology datasets built for hydropower forecasting and trading: basin-scale SWE time series produced through the 18-month DeFROST4Hydropower consortium across 12 hydrologic basins in Switzerland and France, benchmarked against independent snow references from Canada, Norway and the USA, plus a web app carrying SLF (World Snow Research Center) snow data and downloadable technical/evaluation reports.. Small but commercially proven niche leader: 7 employees in Lausanne, ~$2.6M raised, ~$2.7M revenue — an…

Wegaw offers (Geospatial, Alternative, Fundamental, ESG) — est. low millions of records at present: 12 hydrologic basins x daily-to-subdaily SWE and hydrological layers over the observation period, each basin disaggregated into elevation bands/snow pixels; the cross-comparison studies add independent reference series for Canada, Norway and the USA. The upstream satellite archive it is derived from is far larger, but the licensable Wegaw-labelled slice is basin-scoped..

Long-term (weeks-to-seasons) hydropower inflow and generation forecasting; snowmelt-driven volume and price positioning for power traders and options desks; reduction of imbalance/trading adjustments; asset optimisation and reservoir scheduling under climate variability; hydropower asset valuation and merchant-risk underwriting; calibration and bias correction of rainfall-runoff models; training data for snow-to-runoff and hydrological deep-learning models; climate physical-risk assessment of alpine generation portfolios.

The data is with 6 years of history.

Coverage spans Europe, US, Japan; Electric Utilities, Application Software; geospatial, alternative, fundamental, ESG; commodities, derivatives, equities.