PV Rooftop Database for Puerto Rico (PVRDB-PR)

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
28 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. https://github.com/openEDI/documentation/blob/master/PVROOFTOPS_PR.md
21 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. https://maps.nrel.gov/solar-for-all/?aL=Dri2fK%255Bv%255D%3Dt%26Z0HxR8%255Bv%255D%3Dt%26Z0HxR8%255Bd%255D%3D1&bL=clight&cE=0&lR=0&mC=38.870832155646326%2C-98.34521484375001&zL=5
21 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. https://data.openei.org/submissions/4
21 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. https://registry.opendata.aws/oedi-data-lake/
21 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. https://data.openei.org/s3_viewer?bucket=oedi-data-lake&prefix=pv-rooftop-pr%2F
28 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. https://github.com/openEDI/documentation/blob/main/PVROOFTOPS_PR.md

Tags

  • photovoltaics
  • rooftop
  • geospatial
  • pv
  • puerto-rico
  • lmi
  • solar
  • nsrdb
  • sam
  • technical-potential
  • buildings
  • power
  • low-to-moderate-income
  • lidar
  • roof
  • spatial
  • solar-for-all
  • energy

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