PV Rooftop Database
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.
Citation Formats
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). (2016). PV Rooftop Database [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725.
Mooney, Meghan. PV Rooftop Database. United States: N.p., 01 Jan, 2016. Web. doi: 10.25984/1784725.
Mooney, Meghan. PV Rooftop Database. United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725
Mooney, Meghan. 2016. "PV Rooftop Database". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725. https://data.openei.org/submissions/4.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725
Details
Data from Jan 1, 2016
Last updated Dec 31, 2023
Submitted Apr 2, 2020
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Contact
Meghan Mooney
Authors
Research Areas
Keywords
energy, power, solar, NREL, PV, rooftop, building, developable, plane, installations, developable planes, aspect, raster, geospatial data, PVRDB, NSRDB, photovoltaics, GIS, infrastructure, roof, lidarDOE Project Details
Project Name Solar Value Analysis and Market Penetration Modeling
Project Number EE00025803