Description
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) PV Rooftop Database for Puerto Rico (PVRDB-PR) is a lidar-derived, geospatially-resolved dataset of suitable roof surfaces and their PV technical potential for virtually all buildings in Puerto Rico. The dataset can be downloaded at the AWS S3 explorer page. The GitHub documentation page provides a description of the dataset with methods and assumptions. The Puerto Rico Solar-For-All dataset provides Census Tract level estimates of residential low-to-moderate income (LMI) PV rooftop technical potential as well as solar electric bill savings potential for LMI communities at the municipality level.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PVRDB-PR AWS S3 Bucket | HTML | AWS S3 explorer page with data downloadable by county for Puerto Rico. PV suitable roof surfaces (aka "developable planes") for 96% of buildings in Puerto Rico. The developable planes contain orientation, area, spatial geometries, and technical potential details of each developable plane suitable for rooftop solar in Puerto Rico. | Open resource |
| PV Rooftop Dataset for metropolitan United States | HTML | NREL's PV Rooftop Database (PVRDB) is a lidar-derived, geospatially-resolved dataset of suitable roof surfaces and their PV technical potential for 128 metropolitan regions in the United States. | Open resource |
| GitHub Documentation | Markdown | GitHub documentation for the PV Rooftops dataset provided in Parquet format partitioned by county name. Developable planes contain orientation, area, spatial geometries, and technical potential details of each developable plane suitable for rooftop solar in Puerto Rico. | Open resource |
| GitHub Documentation | Markdown | GitHub documentation for the PV Rooftops dataset provided in Parquet format partitioned by county name. Developable planes contain orientation, area, spatial geometries, and technical potential details of each developable plane suitable for rooftop solar in Puerto Rico. | Open resource |
| Solar for All | HTML | Spatial files for the "Puerto Rico Solar-for-All: LMI PV Rooftop Technical Potential and Solar Savings Potential" are also made available on NREL's Solar For All web mapping application. | Open resource |
| OEDI Data Registry on AWS | HTML | AWS public dataset program registry page for data released under the Department of Energy's (DOE) Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). The registry page contains information about dataset documentation, access, and contact, for each of the OEDI Data Lake datasets. | Open resource |