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PV Rooftop Database

Metadata Updated: May 21, 2024

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.

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 June 24, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 21, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from OpenEI data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 24, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 21, 2024
Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Maintainer
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Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/4
Data First Published 2016-01-01T07:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2024-05-20T15:13:06Z
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 019:20
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
Homepage URL https://data.openei.org/submissions/4
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Program Code 019:000, 019:008
Projectnumber EE00025803
Projecttitle Solar Value Analysis and Market Penetration Modeling
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