SolarView: Georgia Solar Adoption in Context

Tidwell, Jacqueline Hettel; Tidwell, Abraham; Nelson, Steffan; Hill, Marcus

doi:10.3390/data3040061

Title: SolarView: Georgia Solar Adoption in Context

Journal Article · Fri Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Data

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/data3040061· OSTI ID:1493313

^[1]; Tidwell, Abraham ^[1]; Nelson, Steffan ^[1]; Hill, Marcus ^[1]

Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)

The local-national gap is a problem currently plaguing the adoption of emerging technologies targeted at resolving energy transition issues that are characterized by disparities in the adoption of innovations and policies on a local level in response to national policy implementation. These disparities reflect a complex system of technical, economic, social, political, and ecological factors linked to the perceptions held by communities and how they see energy development and national/global policy goals. This dataset is an attempt to bridge the local-national gap regarding solar PV adoption in the State of Georgia (U.S.) by aggregating variables from seven different publicly-available sources. The objective of this activity was to design a resource that would help researchers interested in the context underlying solar adoption on the local scale of governance (e.g., the county level). The SolarView database includes information necessary for informing policy-making activities such as solar installation information, a historical county zip code directory, county-level census data, housing value indexes, renewable energy incentive totals, PV rooftop suitability percentages, and utility rates. As this is a database from multiple sources, incomplete data entries are noted.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0007664

OSTI ID:: 1493313

Journal Information:: Data, Vol. 3, Issue 4; ISSN 2306-5729

Publisher:: MDPICopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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