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Life & fun · October 12, 2023

OpenPV – Photovoltaic Potential in Bavaria (and Beyond?)

Photovoltaic potential calculated live and privacy-friendly in your browser via WebGL. Using open LoD2 and laser point data from the Bavarian Public Agency for Digitization, High-Speed Internet and Surveying. Including laser points for tree occlusions and other non-LoD2 objects. Try it with the Bavarian Hall of Fame next to Oktoberfest: Hall of Fame, Munich, Bavaria Note that the point clouds might be a lot of data to download if enabled (~50 MB+). Currently limited to Bavaria, Germany. Thanks for your feedback!

OpenPV – Photovoltaic Potential in Bavaria (and Beyond?) launched on October 12, 2023 with 6 votes, #1,606 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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Analysieren Sie das Solarpotenzial Ihres Gebäudes - Open Source, mit frei verfügbaren 3D-Daten und alles direkt im Browser. Datenschutz? Selbstverständlich: kein Tracking, keine Datenspeicherung.

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