A harmonised, high-coverage, open dataset of solar photovoltaic installations in the UK.

ABSTRACT: Solar photovoltaic (PV) is an increasingly significant fraction of electricity generation. Efficient management, and innovations such as short-term forecasting and machine vision, demand high-resolution geographic datasets of PV installations. However, official and public sources have notable deficiencies: spatial imprecision, gaps in coverage and lack of crucial meta data, especially for small-scale solar panel installations. We present the results of a major crowd-sourcing campaign to create open geographic data for over 260,000 solar PV installations across the UK, covering an estimated 86% of the capacity in the country. We focus in particular on capturing small-scale domestic solar PV, which accounts for a significant fraction of generation but was until now very poorly documented. Ou

SUBMITTER: Stowell D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666217 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature