PV Rooftop Database

Description

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Photovoltaic (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. The PVRDB data are organized by city and year of lidar collection. Five geospatial layers are available for each city and year: 1) the raster extent of the lidar collection, 2) buildings identified from the lidar data, 3) suitable developable planes for each building, 4) aspect values of the developable planes, and 5) the technical potential estimates of the developable planes.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 The PV Rooftops dataset is provided in Parquet format on Azure partitioned by city and year. https://microsoft.github.io/AIforEarthDataSets/data/pv_rooftop.html
21 The PV Rooftops dataset is provided in Parquet format on AWS S3 partitioned by city and year. https://data.openei.org/s3_viewer?bucket=oedi-data-lake&prefix=pv-rooftop%2F
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 NREL's 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. https://data.openei.org/submissions/2862
28 GitHub documentation for the PV Rooftop Database (PVRDB) provided in Parquet format partitioned by city and year of lidar collection. https://github.com/openEDI/documentation/blob/main/PVROOFTOPS.md

Tags

  • photovoltaics
  • rooftop
  • plane
  • geospatial-data
  • pv
  • solar
  • nsrdb
  • installations
  • infrastructure
  • power
  • pvrdb
  • raster
  • lidar
  • gis
  • building
  • roof
  • aspect
  • developable
  • developable-planes
  • nrel
  • energy

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