The Renewable Energy Supply Index - Solar (IEA) dataset covers solar energy production and its use for electricity and heat generation. It includes a measure of actual efficiency, where quantities entering electricity generation are equated to the electrical energy generated, with energy units defined in KTOE (41.868 TJ or 11.630 GWh). The dataset is provided by the CEOS_EXTRA organization and was last updated on December 31, 2004.
Use Cases
- Modeling solar energy production trends based on reported energy generation data.
- Calculating the efficiency of solar-to-electricity conversion based on the described efficiency metric.
- Benchmarking national or regional solar energy supply using the standardized KTOE unit of measurement.
Strengths
- Includes a defined measure of actual solar energy efficiency.
- Uses a standardized energy unit (KTOE) equivalent to 41.868 Terajoules or 11.630 Gigawatt-hours.
Limitations
- Last updated 2004-12-31 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- CEOS_EXTRA
- Freshness
- Last updated 2004-12-31 23:59:59.999000.