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Get a quoteScientific Data 10, Article number: 760 (2023) Cite this article Over 4,400 large-scale solar photovoltaic (LSPV) facilities operate in the United States as of December 2021, representing more than 60 gigawatts of electric energy capacity.
The U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database provides the locations and array boundaries of U.S. photovoltaic facilities, with capacity of 1 megawatt or more.
According to data collected by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), there are over 4,400 LSPV facilities with capacities of 1 megawatt (direct current) (MW dc) or greater in operation in the United States as of December 2021, representing over 60 gigawatts of electric power capacity.
The PV facility records are collected from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), position-verified and digitized from aerial imagery, and checked for quality. EIA facility data are supplemented with additional attributes obtained from public sources.
Ground-mounted LSPV installations continue to grow in number, with over 400 projects coming online in 2021 alone 10; yet until 2023, there existed no comprehensive, publicly available, and georectified dataset describing the locations and spatial footprints of these facilities.
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