Nrel Open PV Project

[Roderick]

Apparently, the National Renewable Energy Labs has a voluntary registry of photovoltaic installations. I thought our house would be on there, submitted along with the California Solar Initiative data. Or at least, it should have gotten there through the solar data from the Silicon Valley Energy map . Imagine my dismay at finding that not only was I not there, none of my neighbors with PV were on it, either. Fortunately, there was an option to register and self-submit data.

http://openpv.nrel.gov/gallery

If you have PV installed, it may be worth a look to see if you're on there.

[niel]

nice link. i'm shocked that pa has more listed than many areas in the south, including florida.

[solar_dave]

That is way cool ! Looks like APS has dumped their installs in as I see mine, JBurgess how about you?

[niel]

this thread i thought was good enough to sticky.

[SkiDoo55]

Got my 4.6KW install but the map location shown is way across town from actual location, from CSI data. 08/12/10 install. Cool site watching the installs over time.

[westbranch]

Neat site, even for a Northern American...

I found the "over Time; display very interesting in that the #2 hot spot is the eastern seaboard. I didn't know that there was that much more sunlight there vs central Oregon and Washington...

From a non-American observers viewpoint, there was a sharp decline in activity in about 2009, what the drop tells me is that there must have been an end to subsidies in 2009 +-. Am I correct in this assumption or is it just a lack of data?

Eric

[niel]

sidenote to westbranch,
technically anybody from north or south america is an american. the shortened application came to stick to those of u. s. citizenship just because it was too long to say a united states of american.

[Windsun]

The East had a lot of high profile - and expensive - solar subsidies going for a while, esp NY and a couple other states. There is one place there where you can look at the price per watt for installs that is interesting.

Since 2009 most of the real growth has been in the sunbelt states, probably because the actual payback is much better, I think AZ went from # 14 to #3 in about 4 years.

[solar_dave]

Since 2009 most of the real growth has been in the sunbelt states, probably because the actual payback is much better, I think AZ went from # 14 to #3 in about 4 years.

APS had $3 a watt rebates in 2009 up to mid 2010, then they cut them back "to allow more people to get solar". In fact my 2.16Kw add was one of the last @ $3 a watt.

However since then the price of an installed watt has dropped to under $5, and so the effect price remains about the same as 2009.

[Photowhit]

So I started to create an Account ...

Do I want to add to the community for better understanding among the Solar community,....

...or do I want to protect myself from a goverment who might use the info for possible taxing or other invasive uses...

Nice thread though.