NREL Releases Open-Source Live Solar Mapping Project

October 28th, 2009 by Susan Kraemer

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released The Open PV Mapping Project showing the progress of solar installations on private roofs from 2000 to (currently) now, beginning with a flurry of activity in California, then moving to Wyoming, of all places, and WIsconsin. Gradually the states turn yellow and then orange over time as they add more solar power.

They are soliciting your input, if you have installed solar. It is a community driven project and only as accurate as the data entered in a collaborative effort between government, industry, and the public. As they point out, currently, it is only estimates.

For example, many of the states have no contributors as of yet. The project will also help gauge the progress toward DOE’s goal of reaching PV grid parity by 2015.

Source: DOE EERE

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Tags: DOE, EERE, NREL, solar mapping

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Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, CSP-Today, PV-Insider , SmartGridUpdate, and GreenProphet. She has also been published at Ecoseed, NRDC OnEarth, MatterNetwork, Celsius, EnergyNow, and Scientific American. As a former serial entrepreneur in product design, Susan brings an innovator's perspective on inventing a carbon-constrained civilization: If necessity is the mother of invention, solving climate change is the mother of all necessities! As a lover of history and sci-fi, she enjoys chronicling the strange future we are creating in these interesting times. Follow Susan on Twitter @dotcommodity.

http://twitter.com/jvschmitt jvschmitt

The site isn’t taking new data or members!

I got a PV system this summer, and was going to be nice & collaborative & feed them this data as they indicated they want it. But, no joy (yet).
http://twitter.com/jvschmitt jvschmitt

The site isn’t taking new data or members!

I got a PV system this summer, and was going to be nice & collaborative & feed them this data as they indicated they want it. But, no joy (yet).