{"attribution":"Each entry carries its own licence and attribution text.","generated_at":"2026-10-14T10:11:44Z","retrieved":"2026-10-12","sources":[{"id":"au_cer","records":{"points":0,"areas":2883,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"Clean Energy Regulator (Australia), small-scale installations by postcode","url":"https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Clean Energy Regulator, Australian Government (CC BY 4.0).","grain":"postcode (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"small-scale (residential and commercial)","notes":"Large-scale plants appear as postcode aggregates; no coordinates in the source. Postcodes under five systems are merged into their state (level region)."},{"id":"cne_gx","records":{"points":709,"areas":49,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"Comisión Nacional de Energía (Chile), generation units (Gx) and PMGD / net billing capacity","url":"https://datos.gob.cl/","licence":"CNE-CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Fuente: Comisión Nacional de Energía, Chile (CC BY 4.0).","grain":"generation unit (points); comuna (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"utility; small distributed","notes":"The Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional API is not used: its licence is not verified. Comunas whose mean system size exceeds 9,000 kW are suppressed (QA)."},{"id":"cne_netbilling","records":{"points":0,"areas":478,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"Comisión Nacional de Energía (Chile), net billing and PMGD capacity by comuna","url":"https://datos.gob.cl/","licence":"CNE-CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Fuente: Comisión Nacional de Energía, Chile (CC BY 4.0).","grain":"comuna (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"residential and small distributed","notes":"Installed capacity by comuna from the CNE net billing and PMGD registers. Cells below five systems are not shown."},{"id":"ember","records":{"points":0,"areas":0,"countries":5917,"series":0},"name":"Ember, Global Electricity Data (yearly)","url":"https://ember-energy.org/data-catalogue/","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Data: Ember (CC BY 4.0). Attribution on every chart and export.","grain":"country and year","sizes":"national totals","notes":"solar_share is a fraction of total generation. Capacity is not verified by Ember basis; years without a value are left empty, never carried forward."},{"id":"energy_charts","records":{"points":0,"areas":0,"countries":0,"series":327},"name":"Fraunhofer ISE, Energy-Charts (public net generation and installed power)","url":"https://www.energy-charts.info/","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Data: Fraunhofer ISE, Energy-Charts (CC BY 4.0).","grain":"country and year","sizes":"national totals","notes":"Published as energycharts.json, a separate cross-check series, because two capacity values per country-year would collide with Ember."},{"id":"fr_registre","records":{"points":0,"areas":27140,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"ODRÉ, Registre national des installations de production et de stockage d'électricité (solar)","url":"https://odre.opendatasoft.com/","licence":"LO-2.0","licence_url":"https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence","attribution":"Source : ODRÉ, Registre national des installations (Licence Ouverte 2.0).","grain":"commune (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"residential, commercial, utility","notes":"Personal names, EIC codes and free text were removed before aggregation."},{"id":"gb_fit","records":{"points":0,"areas":4144,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"Ofgem Feed-in Tariff installation register (photovoltaic)","url":"https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/feed-tariff-scheme","licence":"OGL-3.0","licence_url":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Ofgem).","grain":"postcode district (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"residential and small commercial","notes":"Postcode districts with fewer than five installations are not shown. Postcode districts carry no name."},{"id":"gb_pvlive","records":{"points":0,"areas":0,"countries":0,"series":2336},"name":"Sheffield Solar, PV_Live (modelled GB solar generation, monthly)","url":"https://api.pvlive.uk/pvlive/api/v4","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"PV_Live by Sheffield Solar, University of Sheffield, licensed under CC BY 4.0","grain":"month and series (national and regional)","sizes":"national and regional generation","notes":"Modelled from a sample of PV systems, not metered. 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Coordinates converted from British National Grid."},{"id":"jp_fit","records":{"points":0,"areas":3880,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"METI, FIT and FIP certified installations (fit-portal.go.jp)","url":"https://www.fit-portal.go.jp/","licence":"GOV-STD-2.0","licence_url":"https://www.fit-portal.go.jp/Terms","attribution":"Source: METI, FIT/FIP certified installations, Government Standard Terms v2.0.","grain":"municipality (aggregates, n >= 5)","sizes":"residential and non-residential","notes":"Capacity is AC as published. Names, addresses and lot-level text were removed."},{"id":"nl_cbs","records":{"points":0,"areas":342,"countries":0,"series":10},"name":"Statistics Netherlands (CBS), StatLine solar PV tables 84131NED and 85005NED","url":"https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Statistics Netherlands (CBS), StatLine, CC BY 4.0.","grain":"country and year (national series)","sizes":"homes (national series)","notes":"National installed PV capacity by year, cumulative. Series only: neighbourhood and municipal tables are held (not additive). 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Plant status is not verified from OpenStreetMap tags; shown as unknown and excluded from the operating total."},{"id":"pvdaq","records":{"points":24,"areas":1,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"NREL PV Data Acquisition (PVDAQ), open performance datasets","url":"https://doi.org/10.25984/1846021","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Data: NREL PVDAQ, CC BY 4.0. 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Plant names are not published."},{"id":"wikidata","records":{"points":656,"areas":0,"countries":0,"series":0},"name":"Wikidata (solar power stations and parks)","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/","licence":"CC0-1.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","attribution":"Wikidata, CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication).","grain":"station (points)","sizes":"utility and commercial","notes":"Every Wikidata row carries a nominal capacity (basis src_nominal, not measured). 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