US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files

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Database

Date Published

08/2024

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Latest Database Release: USPVDB_V2_0_20240807

The latest release includes data on 4,185 facilities covering 47 states (plus the District of Columbia). The most recent facilities added to the USPVDB became operational as recently as the third quarter of 2023. The oldest facilities in the data set were installed prior to 1990. USPVDB releases generally lag installations by more than a year, due to the release times of underlying data, including satellite imagery, and the effort required to digitize facilities.

Click here to go to the U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database website(link is external) and online viewer(link is external), where the USPVDB data can be downloaded(link is external).

This site holds the codebooks, memos and other information about the most recent USPVDB data release.  Please email uspvdb@lbl.gov  for information. To be added to the USPVDB mailing list to receive information about upcoming releases etc, please go here(link is external).

Year of Publication

2024

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A paper providing detailed descriptions of the methodology used to assemble this dataset can be found here: Fujita, K.S., Ancona, Z..H., Kramer, L.A., Diffendorfer, J.E., Straka, M., Gautreau, T.E., Robson, D., Hoen, B. and Garrity, C.P., Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States(link is external). Scientific Data (2023) (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02644-8)

A brief overview of this study can be found here(link is external)

A webinar describing the data sources and the data viewer was recorded on Nov 16, 2023, and can be viewed here(link is external)

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