.... but does it better!
20 June 2011: City University of New York and the Dept of energy have worked on a map of New York using the Lidar laser system to analyse roofs, found that if roofs suitable for fitting PV panels were fitted, the city's rooftops could double the entire USA's current solar capacity, and would be enough to power half the city at peak time. Read more about this in Ecogeek website and in the New York Times.
This is similar to a survey we did last summer, but we have yet to do more work on this, and certainly didn't have a Lidar laser system.
66.4% of the city's roofs would be suitable, and could generate 5,847 megawatts of energy from the hundreds of thousands of suitable buildings. Currently, in the city now there are only about 6.6 megawatts of solar energy installed.
You can take this further and see a version of the Googlemap with suitable locations marked on. This is an idea to pursue further. Does anyone know how to overlay custom information onto Googlemaps?
This is similar to a survey we did last summer, but we have yet to do more work on this, and certainly didn't have a Lidar laser system.
66.4% of the city's roofs would be suitable, and could generate 5,847 megawatts of energy from the hundreds of thousands of suitable buildings. Currently, in the city now there are only about 6.6 megawatts of solar energy installed.
You can take this further and see a version of the Googlemap with suitable locations marked on. This is an idea to pursue further. Does anyone know how to overlay custom information onto Googlemaps?
Brilliant, my roof is done, as of April 2011, and I can't tell everyone enough how pleased I am at the returns I am going to be seeing from the Feed in Tariff - 1170 units generated in 11 weeks - thats just shy of £500 by my calculations, (but yes it is summer and I am sure it will die off somewhat in the winter). Paul near Mapperley
ReplyDeleteHi Paul.... we all look forward to the summer, and here it is! the Solstice today. I find that the spring before the solstice is often better than the months after because the colder air temperatures help the panels to generate more... best days are sunny with a chilling wind. I need a few more good days in June for my roof to exceed its May PV harvest.
ReplyDeleteGreat post here in regards to commercial solar panels here, me and my husband just got financing and they did a great job! Keep up the good work!
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