as_received
: Datasets precisely in the form in which we originally got them, unchanged in content or format, whether text or binary, open or proprietary.
raw
: Data that has been manually edited, at least to change the format to one that we can use programmatically (if required) but also there may a small number of edits to the data that do not seem to be generalisable, or we can't work out how to automate, or are not likely to re-occur next time we download the data.
processed
: Datasets that have been programmatically modified (typically from raw). Note
that the processed directory is local, it is like a “compiled code”
directory: not under version control but neither on the shared drive.
Latest data taken from: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-installation-report-30-september-2019
There are hundreds of thousands of entries. Geolocation is imprecise (it's only given as postcode districts and/or LSOA districts).
Includes wind and other tech as well as solar. The database filters on Technology=Photovoltaic.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract
Official UK data from the "renewable energy planning database". This only has the larger solar farms (approx 1000) and geolocations are imprecise (mainly unreliable street addresses). However it includes useful metadata - capacity, install date, etc.
Note: the majority of REPD solar farms (approx 900) have already been entered into OSM.
OSM: OpenStreetMap solar PV objects for the UK. Approx 120,000 small-scale PV and 900 solar farms. The data is in OSM's pbf format, and it's extracted from OSM database as of 2019-11-17. It's structured data. Also included an XML version.