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.
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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 -
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
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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: 2025-05-12},
doi = {10.25984/1784725}
}
https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1784725
Details
Data from Jan 1, 2016
Last updated May 20, 2024
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
