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PV Rooftop Database

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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.

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TY - DATA AB - 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. AU - Mooney, Meghan DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - 10.25984/1784725 KW - energy KW - power KW - solar KW - NREL KW - PV KW - rooftop KW - building KW - developable KW - plane KW - installations KW - developable planes KW - aspect KW - raster KW - geospatial data KW - PVRDB KW - NSRDB KW - photovoltaics KW - GIS KW - infrastructure KW - roof KW - lidar LA - English DA - 2016/01/01 PY - 2016 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) T1 - PV Rooftop Database UR - https://doi.org/10.25984/1784725 ER -
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Mooney, Meghan. PV Rooftop Database. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 1 January, 2016, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/1784725.
Mooney, M. (2016). PV Rooftop Database. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). https://doi.org/10.25984/1784725
Mooney, Meghan. PV Rooftop Database. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), January, 1, 2016. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/1784725
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_4, title = {PV Rooftop Database}, author = {Mooney, Meghan}, abstractNote = {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.}, url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/4}, year = {2016}, howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), https://doi.org/10.25984/1784725}, note = {Accessed: 2025-04-24}, doi = {10.25984/1784725} }
https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725

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Data from Jan 1, 2016

Last updated May 20, 2024

Submitted Apr 2, 2020

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

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Meghan Mooney

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Meghan Mooney

National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL

DOE Project Details

Project Name Solar Value Analysis and Market Penetration Modeling

Project Number EE00025803

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