Hi all, Been watching the thread on Solar. A couple of comments.
1 Boundaries. As the image (linked to below) from a WPD public webinar shows it is not easy to map separate solar sites based in a single location. No way to tell which panels belong to which site from aerial imagery alone. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93bT3FoS2lBVXZQRzNMTkgzVTg1ZE9GbHVwTXZj/view?usp=sharing 2 Data The Renewable Energy Planning Database is one source of info. The government have outsourced the task of tracking the growth of renewables to the company listed on the file. They look at planning applications and speak with developers. The capacity data is not always right as a developer may change their plans. Also there are cases where some Wind sites are split into 2 as the cross an admin boundary. In reality it is one Wind Farm site. Other, potentially more useful sources are the Renewable Obligation register (the register by which subsidies are paid) which includes generating station address. For smaller sites the equivalent is the Feed In Tarriff data. This incudes the first part of the postcode and the LSOA (ONS area). Finally there is REGO (Renewable Energy Guarantees Origin). This is the database to large sites register on if they want to sell renewable energy to a supplier and the supplier wants proof it is coming from a renewable source. Like the RO it has generating station address. https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/ https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-installation-report-31-december-2018 Best regards, *Rob*
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