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United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (ver. 1.0, November 2023)

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Fujita, K.S., Ancona, Z.H., Kramer, L.A., Straka, M., Gautreau, T.E., Garrity, C.P., Robson, D., Diffendorfer, J.E., and Hoen, B., 2023, United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (ver. 1.0, November 2023): U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IA3TUS.

Summary

Over 4,400 large scale commercial solar facilities are in operation in the United States as of December, 2021, representing over 60 gigawatts of electric power capacity; of these, over 3,900 are ground-mounted with capacities of 1MW or more, specified as large scale solar photovoltaic (LSPV) facilities. LSPV ground-mounted installations continue to grow, with over 400 projects coming online in 2021 alone. Currently, a comprehensive, publicly available georectified data describing the locations and spatial footprints of these facilities does not exist. Analysts from the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory collaborated to develop and release the United States Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB). [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Zachary H Ancona, James (Jay) E. Diffendorfer, Ben Hoen
Originator :
K. Sydny Fujita, Zachary H Ancona, Louisa A Kramer, Mary M Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Christopher P Garrity, Dana Robson, James (Jay) E. Diffendorfer, Ben Hoen
Metadata Contact :
Zachary H Ancona
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
Energy Resources Program
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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Metadata_uspvdb_v1_0_20231108_FGDC.xml
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Data_Dictionary_uspvdb_v1_0_20231108.csv 7.77 KB text/csv
uspvdb_v1_0_20231108.csv 652.34 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data release has the purpose of serving the data (that can be released to the public) in a way that can be machine readable. All of the data used in the larger work is included in tables within the report itself, this 1st version of data also serves the purpose of providing the information/data used in shapefile and CSV formats.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9IA3TUS

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urlhttps://eerscmap.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/uspvdb/uspvdbTiled/MapServer

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