Solar Potential Atlas

Published on January 19, 2015

The solar potential atlas is an interactive map which indicates the amount of solar energy that could be harvested on each roof in a city. The results are stored in a database and can later be retrieved for presentation and analysis to various uses. Currently, a high potential for PV installations remains untapped: Real estate owners remain uninformed about their rooftops' energy potential, and lack the incentive to investigate the topic on their own. The solar potential atlas closes the gap by providing this information in the form of clean, intelligible city maps on the internet. By clicking on a building, the public can access data about the solar energy that could be harvested on this building, including photovoltaic, storage and solar thermal technologies.

Currently, a high potential for PV installations remains untapped: Real estate owners remain uninformed about their rooftops' energy potential, and lack the incentive to investigate the topic on their own. The solar potential atlas closes the gap by providing this information in the form of clean, intelligible city maps on the internet. By clicking on a building, the public can access data about the solar energy that could be harvested on this building, including photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies. Besides the main topic of Solar Potential Atlasses the current focus is being extended in research and development of projects in the field of small wind energy plants and storage. tetraeder.solar cooperates with universities to research renewable technologies and their effects on the energy grid. tetraeder.solar gmbh has published Solar Potential Atlas in more that 600 municipalities in Germany. Due to the PSI directive (Directive 2003/98/EC) tetraeder.solar has calculated the entire country of the Netherland and Denmark. A pilot project is done in Poland, France, the UK and in America.