Solar power supply system data

It is provided by the World Bank Group as a free service to governments, developers and the general public, and allows users to quickly obtain data and carry out a simple electricity output calculation for any location covered by the solar resource database.

Comparing the produced 2019–2022 PV dataset with the currently sole global solar panel spatial dataset 30 (Kruitwagen et al., 2021), the new dataset achieves an IoU of over 90% for PV in each year, surpassing the IoU of Kruitwagen's dataset (Fig. 5c).

Solar power generation data are in the solar_stations folder, which includes eight Excel files. The weather condition data and real-time power generation data were recorded in these files. The power generation and PV panel information of each solar station are listed in Table 4.

Table 2 describes the meaning of column headings. The nominal solar generation capacity varied from 30 MW to 130 MW, and the average real output ranged from 4.2 MW to 29.8 MW. The statistics of each solar station can be seen in Table 5.

Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation, known for its affordability and environmental benefits, is a key component of the global energy supply. However, the lack of comprehensive, timely, and precise global PV datasets has limited spatial analysis of PV potential.

The photovoltaic installation has a theoretical peak generation of 7.5 kW. The dataset presents some errors in the data, representing failures in the acquisition system. NSRDB contains 30 years of solar radiation and supplementary meteorological data from 237 NWS sites in the U.S., plus sites in Guam and Puerto Rico.