Household and Community Solar Assessment Calculator

太阳能光伏是建筑能源脱碳中最具商业可行性的净零技术之一。然而，尽管潜力巨大，英国2900万户家庭中只有3.3%安装了系统。场地和屋顶可行性的不确定性以及缺乏当地可信的信息和支持阻碍了吸收。为了将太阳能发电的增长速度加快到气候变化委员会建议的水平（到2030年达到40GW），太阳能光伏采用者需要得到支持，并获得可靠的信息来评估屋顶可行性。户主希望能够快速、准确、独立地预测自家光伏发电的潜力。社区团体希望在他们的社区内确定最具光伏潜力的建筑，以规划社区能源和团体太阳能购买项目。教区和镇议会以及更大的地区、统一和县当局希望了解光伏在他们自己的建筑物中的可行性，以及屋顶太阳能对他们的气候应急响应的贡献。在SBRI“净零能源开放数字解决方案”的资助下，可持续能源中心（CSE）正在开发“家庭和社区太阳能评估计算器”，这是一个直观的网络应用程序，基于一种创新的方法，将国家激光雷达数据与自己的内部建筑能源模型和更广泛的数据集结合起来。计算器将为户主和业主提供免费、独立的光伏可行性信息，以及下一步和安装的建议。它还可以评估当地地理位置（即区/教区）的太阳能光伏潜力，并为用户提供订阅下载和分析更广泛数据集的选项。CSE正在与sharenenergy（运营着旗舰的大型太阳能合作社，并支持在英国建立60多个拥有和运营太阳能光伏阵列的社区太阳能合作社）和Bath & West community Energy（在学校、公共建筑和其他非住宅建筑上安装社区拥有的太阳能，并与对家庭光伏装置感兴趣的投资者网络）合作设计和开发该工具。CSE还将通过致力于净零交付的社区能源和地方议会网络进行广泛咨询，以确保太阳能光伏的新手以及那些更了解情况和需要进一步信息的人都可以使用该应用程序。家庭和社区太阳能评估计算器使安装太阳能光伏的好处对个人家庭和业主更加清楚，加快决策过程，使可信赖的社区光伏计划得以扩散。

Solar PV is one of the most commercially viable net zero technologies for building energy decarbonisation. Yet despite huge potential only 3.3% of the UK's 29m homes have installed systems. Uptake is hampered by uncertainty over site and rooftop viability and a lack of local, trusted information and support.To accelerate the growth of solar power to the levels recommended by the Climate Change Committee (40GW by 2030) solar PV adopters need support and access to trusted information to assess rooftop viability. Householders want quick, accurate, independent predictions about the potential for PV on their homes. Community groups want to identify buildings within their neighbourhoods that offer the best potential for PV to plan community energy and group solar buying projects. Parish and town councils alongside larger district, unitary and county authorities want to understand the viability of PV for their own buildings and the contribution rooftop solar could make to their climate emergency responses.With funding from the SBRI's Open Digital Solutions for Net Zero Energy, the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) is developing the 'Household and Community Solar Assessment Calculator' as an intuitive web application, based on an innovative methodology which combines national LiDAR data with its own in-house building energy models and wider datasets. The Calculator will provide householders and building owners with free, independent information about PV viability at building level alongside advice on next steps and installation. It will also enable assessment of solar PV potential at local geographies (i.e. ward/parish) with options for users to subscribe to download and analyse wider datasets.CSE is designing and developing the tool in collaboration with Sharenergy (which runs the flagship Big Solar Coop and has supported the establishment of over 60 community solar coops which own and operate solar PV arrays across the UK) and Bath & West Community Energy (installing community-owned solar on schools, public buildings and other non-domestic buildings and with a network of investors interested household PV installations).CSE will also consult widely through community energy and local council networks working on net zero delivery, to ensure that the application is accessible to newcomers to solar PV as well as those who are more informed and in need of further information. The Household and Community Solar Assessment Calculator make the benefits of installing solar PV clearer for individual householders and building owners, accelerate the decision-making process and enable trusted community PV schemes to proliferate.