The Open PV Market Mapper 2.0 visualizes data regarding solar panel installations in the United States, using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Open PV database. The database contains information on installs dating from 1969 onwards, and is continually updated with user-inputted data from the public, government, and industry. The data in these visualizations are updated daily with any changes made to the NREL database.
You can currently view by state 1 of 3 summary data metrics calculated using all points in the database:
- Average Cost ($/W): the average cost per watt for an installation
- Total Capacity (MW): the collective amount of power, in megawatts, that can be produced by the systems
- Total Installs: number of total solar installations
- Total Installs Time Lapse: the number of installations as they happen each year
This app uses Ruby on Rails as a web app framework, the JavaScript libraries Mapbox, Leaflet, and CartoDB to create the maps, and jQuery, typeahead, and Bootstrap for UI. Data are collected from the NREL Open PV API and are joined with coordinate data to be served as an internal API of GeoJSON.
git clone git@github.com:julyytran/open_pv_market_mapper_2.0.git
cd open_pv_market_mapper_2.0
bundle
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rails s