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.
Solar power map australia.
Solar power in australia.
Although it s not designed for sizing it is a powerful tool that shows the real time contribution of solar energy in australia based on a huge data base of real solar data and the findings are quite incredible.
This project has been funded by the australian renewable energy agency.
Solar power in australia is a fast growing industry.
To view and use these data sets you need appropriate geographic information system software.
The australian pv institute also has a great live solar map released earlier this year.
The maps and data for australia have been released in parallel with global solar atlas which is published by the world bank group funded by esmap and prepared by solargis all maps on this page are licensed by the world bank under the creative commons attribution license with the mandatory and binding addition presented in global solar atlas terms.
The 20bn plan to power singapore with australian solar ambitious export plan could generate billions and make australia the centre of low cost energy in a future zero.
Solar pv generated 3 1 per cent of australia s electricity in 2016 17 the majority of which came from small scale rooftop pv more than two million or 21 percent of australian households now have rooftop solar pv with a combined capacity exceeding 10 gw visit the australian pv institute s live map for live solar pv data.
Pertinent news considering the upcoming australian election the guardian uk has created an interactive map of solar power in australia by federal electorate.
The global solar atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally.
The map is based on data from australia s solar industry consultancy sunwiz and not for profit renewable energy campaigners 100 renewable energy.
Solar resource data sets.
In 2019 59 solar pv projects with a combined capacity of 2 881 mw were either under construction constructed or due to start construction.
Just a matter of when.
To make the above maps the multiyear solar irradiance was calculated from the nsrdb.
These derived data sets are provided below as geospatial rasters.