Solar Power Map Canada

The best place in canada for producing solar power is torquay saskatchewan with a solar energy potential of 1384 kwh kw yr.

Solar power map canada. These interactive maps available soon give estimates of photovoltaic potential in kwh kwp and of the mean daily global insolation in mj m2 and in kwh m2 for any location in canada on a 60 arc seconds 2 km grid. It is provided by the world bank group as a free service to governments developers and the general public and allows users to quickly obtain data and carry out a simple electricity output calculation for any location covered by the solar resource database. Solar resource data sets. The global solar atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally.

The maps give the annual energy yield in kwh per kwp of pv solar system installed on various mounting systems. These derived data sets are provided below as geospatial rasters. Our mission is to accelerate sustainable energy in canada. Fixed vertical axis tracking horizontal axis tracking 2 axis tracking.

To view and use these data sets you need appropriate geographic information system software. Regions of high solar potential based on global horizontal irradiation being located in the british columbia interior southern alberta southern saskatchewan southern manitoba ontario southern quebec new brunswick southern nova scotia and western prince edward island. The maps below provide for each canadian province the average solar energy yield dc output of pv modules from various mounting systems. The maps are based on a 10 km x 10 km grid i e.

Free solar maps of canada created by ecosmart from solar data collected from 235 weather stations across canada and or suny satellite data. Each pixel represents an area of 10 x 10 km an extremely fine resolution. To make the above maps the multiyear solar irradiance was calculated from the nsrdb. Canada has plentiful solar energy resources thanks to its large area.

The 750 million project led by calgary s greengate power will consist of 1 5 million solar panels and generate about 800 million kwh kilowatt hours a year enough to power more than 100 000.