A dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations containing counts and capacity of small-scale solar installations. It lists the number of connections, installations, and total output in kilowatt-peak per CBS area. Data is aggregated into municipal residual posts for neighborhoods with fewer than five plants to protect resident privacy.
Use Cases
- Mapping the spatial distribution of small-scale solar adoption based on CBS area data.
- Analyzing the correlation between neighborhood characteristics and solar installation capacity based on aggregated kWp output.
- Modeling grid load and decentralization trends based on the number of connections and installations per area.
- Assessing the effectiveness of privacy-protection measures like residual posts in public energy data.
Strengths
- Includes specific metrics: number of connections, installations, and total output in kWp.
- Implements a documented privacy measure by aggregating data for areas with fewer than five plants.
- Published under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the eu_open_data platform and the specific utility provider.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
- Collection Method
- Likely aggregated from utility connection and installation records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- CBS areas (likely Dutch statistical areas) within the Liander utility network region.