[Data] 186 GW of US ground mounted solar panels

[martincollignon]

New dataset came out a few weeks ago containing 15,000 commercial- and utility-scale ground-mounted solar photovoltaic and concentrating solar energy arrays (186 GW) covering 2,950 km² and includes 2.92 million unique solar panel-rows (466 km²). I imagine it could be helpful to improve forecasts?

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05862-4 Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/14827819 Linkedin post teasing a v2: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jake-stid-38bb23131_solars-footprint-is-central-to-discussions-activity-7378531783019167744-CIlL

[VIKTORVAV99]

Thanks Martin!

I'll pass it along to the right people!

[pierresegonne]

Hello there 👹

[Garsdal]

This looks like an amazing source, thanks for sharing it Martin