Product Version

1.2

Overview

Solar is a national digital dataset representing photovoltaic solar panel information across urban areas of each state and territory of Australia. The purpose of Solar is to spatially represent photovoltaic solar panel related features and provide aggregated solar information at the address and building level for use by industry and government in geographic information systems, visualisations, modelling and for the derivation of analytics.

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Solar Panel Product overlaying © Aerometrex Ltd Aerial Imagery [Aerometrex, 2023]

The Solar product is comprised of four layers; solar, solar_solar_address, solar_address and solar_building. The solar layer provides a spatial representation of solar panel arrays as well as associated attribution including the type of solar panel in the array, the area of the array and the daily estimated power production calculated using these factors.

The solar_solar_address table links solar polygons to addresses. The solar_address table provides an aggregated representation of solar at an address, with total area and daily estimated power output values summed where solar polygons relate to the address. A solar flag is provided to indicate whether there is solar at the address. Information relating to the address such as links to G-NAF, whether it is a residential address, and the related planning zone are also provided.

The solar_building table provides a link between solar polygons and the Buildings product, as well as an aggregated representation of solar for a building, with total area and daily estimated power output summed where solar polygons relate to the building. A solar flag is provided to indicate whether there is solar on the building. Information relating to the building such as the planning zone, primary roof material, roof shape, roof slope and area of the building are also provided.

Geoscape Australia welcomes your feedback on our Solar product. We also publish regular updates on the development of our products on the Geoscape website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).