3.4M Solar Panels

This article reviews version 2 of the Ground-Mounted Solar Energy in the United States (GM-SEUS) dataset, which now contains over 3.4 million solar panels and includes a new rooftop array dataset. The author describes their high-performance workstation setup, including an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU, 96 GB DDR5 RAM, and a 4 TB NVMe SSD, running Ubuntu on Windows. They detail the installation of prerequisites like GDAL 3.9.3 and DuckDB with extensions for data analysis, and use QGIS for map rendering. The post provides step-by-step commands for downloading and processing the dataset, focusing on technical data analysis workflows for solar energy infrastructure.