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Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS)
Geographical
Assessment of Solar Resource and Performance of Photovoltaic Technology


 

Interactive access to solar resource and photovoltaic potential:

See also aggregated data of solar and PV potential for  European countries and regions.

The old system with French, German Italian, Spanish, and Slovak language interface still works, but will probably be removed in the next upgrade.

Posters and maps of solar resource and photovoltaic electricity potential

(Europe NEW, Africa)

 

old version maps for Europe

 

Topics 

About PVGIS

How the database for Europe was created

Solar radiation data worldwide (update)

Air temperature in Europe

News 

16.02.2012: Geographical coverage of PVGIS-CMSAF extended to 50° E and to 35° S to cover all of Africa. PVGIS-CMSAF has also been updated so it now contains data from 1998 to end 2011.

11.02.2011: Important Bug fix! See here for details.

20.10.2010: Bug fixes and small improvements. See here for details.

20.09.2010: A new version of the PVGIS interactive web applications is now ready: PVGIS-4. The new version includes a new solar radiation database and several other improvements. See the details here. Jetzt auch auf Deutsch!

We have added a number of new features, and we have done our best to test them to make sure they work properly. If you encounter problems, please contact us by e-mail.

Versione italiana finalmente pronta. Provala qui

New version of European country maps

New version of the PVGIS online applications. See what's in the new version.

First steps in cross-comparison of solar radiation spatial data products

Collaboration

International Energy Agency, Solar Heating and Cooling Programme,
Task 36: Solar Resource Knowledge Management

 

FP6 project "Management and Exploitation of Solar Resource Knowledge" MESoR
 

Ecole des Mines de Paris/Armines, Sophia Antipolis, France - integration of HelioClim-1 solar radiation database into PVGIS

 

European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Institute for Energy, Renewable Energy Unit
Via Fermi 2749, TP 450, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
tel: +39 0332 785273, fax: +39 0332 789268


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