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Solar farms

  • Layer title: Solar power farms

  • Layer name: solar.gpkg

  • Sub-layers: None

  • Description: Vector point dataset containing solar farms from the Global Energy Monitor

  • Format: GeoPackage (gpkg)

  • Version: 1.4.0

  • Geographical extent (xmin,ymin : xmax:ymax): 6.2308998107910201,48.0874938964844034 : 28.1599006652831996,65.5528030395507955

  • Temporal extent: 12/2023 (time-instant)

  • CRS: WGS84 (epsg:4326)

  • Encoding: UTF-8 / latin1

  • Scale/Denominator: Unknown

  • Topic category: Structure

  • Keywords: solar, infrastructure, energy

  • List of input datasets: None

  • Attributes:

    [name]

    Data type: String (50)

    Description: Text describing the name of the wind farm.

    [owner]

    Data type: String (50)

    Description: Text describing the name of the company owning the wind farm.

    [capacity_mw]

    Data type: Integer

    Description: Refers to the power of the wind farm in MW.

    [accuracy]

    Data type: String (11)

    Description: Refers to the accuracy of the point data, either approximate or exact.

    [gem_id]

    Data type: String (7)

    Description: Refers to the original source unique ID of the wind farm facility.

  • Date: Retrieved Global Energy Monitor on 11/02/2024.

  • Quality/Lineage: The excel large scale wind data has been imported as points using Lat/Long fields and clipped by HyTruck extent,

and the attributes have been cleaned and optimised.

  • License: CC-BY-4.0.

  • Additional information: None.