Household and Community Solar Assessment Calculator

太阳能光伏是最具商业可行性的建筑能源脱碳净零技术之一。然而，尽管潜力巨大，但在英国2900万户家庭中，只有3.3%的家庭安装了系统。由于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，太阳能光伏的应用受到阻碍。要将太阳能发电量的增长加速到气候变化委员会建议的水平(到2030年为40GW)，太阳能光伏采用者需要支持和访问可信的信息来评估屋顶的可行性。户主希望对他们家的光伏潜力做出快速、准确、独立的预测。社区团体希望确定他们社区内最具光伏发电潜力的建筑，以规划社区能源和集体购买太阳能项目。教区和镇议会以及更大的区、单位和县当局希望了解光伏在他们自己的建筑中的可行性，以及屋顶太阳能可以为他们的气候应急响应做出的贡献。在SBRI的净零能源开放数字解决方案的资助下，可持续能源中心(CSE)基于一种创新的方法，将国家LiDAR数据与其内部建筑能源模型和更广泛的数据集相结合，开发了一个直观的网络应用程序-家庭和社区太阳能评估计算器。该计算器将为住户和建筑物业主提供关于光伏在建筑物水平上的生存能力的免费、独立的信息，以及关于下一步步骤和安装的建议。CSE还将能够评估当地地理位置(即Ward/Parish)的太阳能光伏潜力，用户可以选择订阅下载和分析更广泛的数据集。CSE正在与SharEnergy(运行旗舰项目Big Solar Coop，并支持建立60多个社区太阳能合作社，这些社区太阳能合作社在英国各地拥有和运营太阳能光伏阵列)和Bath&West社区能源(在学校、公共建筑和其他非住宅建筑上安装社区所有的太阳能，并与对家庭光伏安装感兴趣的投资者网络)合作设计和开发该工具。CSE还将通过社区能源和地方议会网络进行广泛咨询，实现净零交付。以确保太阳能光伏的新手以及了解更多信息和需要进一步信息的人都可以访问该应用程序。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户主和建筑物业主更加清晰，加快了决策过程，并使值得信赖的社区光伏计划激增。

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.