Published February 1, 2023 | Version 1.1
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Global maps of area suitability for solar photovoltaics on rooftops and cropland

Authors/Creators

  • 1. German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.), Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Cureistr. 4, 70563 Stuttgart, Germany

Description

This dataset consists of the following global maps:

1. The suitable area for installing agri-photovoltaics or agrivoltaics on agricultural land cover in about 10 km x 10 km resolution for three scenarios of policy and social acceptance (optimistic, neutral and conservative)

2. The percentage of PV-suitable building area of total area in 10km x 10km resolution

3. The area suitability of rooftop-photovoltaics in a 10km x 10km resolution 

The maps are based on the land cover data from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service from 2019 and the Open Street Map accessed in 2021.

Updates from Version 1.0 :

- New maps of agrivoltaic suitability due to updated methodology : inclusion of regional crop distribution 

Notes

The ideas and methods employed to create this data are explained in a paper submitted to the journal Environmental Research Letters form IOPScience. (Environmental Research Letters - IOPscience). The reference will be added on publication.

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References

  • Marcel Buchhorn, Bruno Smets, Luc Bertels, Myroslava Lesiv, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Martin Herold, & Steffen Fritz. (2019). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 2: epoch 2015: Globe (V2.0.2) [Data set]. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019 (LPS2019), Milan, Italy. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3243509