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Community Solar Project Database

Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

This database represents a list of community solar projects identified through various sources as of Spring 2018. The list has been reviewed but errors may exist and the list may not be comprehensive. Errors in the souces e.g. press releases may be duplicated in the list. Blank spaces represent missing information. NREL invites input to improve the database including to - correct erroneous information - add missing projects - fill in missing information - remove inactive projects. Updated information can be submitted to Eric O'Shaughnessy at eric.oshaughnessy@nrel.gov.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from OpenEI data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8181
Data First Published 2018-07-27T12:22:11Z
Data Last Modified 2026-03-12T18:10:31Z
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 019:20
Metadata Context https://openei.org/data.json
Metadata Catalog ID https://openei.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 53d482a5-544f-4fd1-a6f4-b9eeecddf420
Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/95
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Program Code 019:008
Projectnumber GO28308
Projecttitle Green Power Markets
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash aae0cbae8fe3860b3d9633b188d60e212b011d331d3ba445b9d0f67457a29c0c
Source Schema Version 1.1

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