Geo-locations and System Data of Renewable Energy Installations in Germany

Content

The dataset contains geolocation and system data of renewable energy installations in Germany. It consists of geoJSON files with point geometries for onshore and offshore wind turbines, ground-mounted photovoltaic systems, bioenergy systems and associated combined heat and power plants, hydropower plants, renewable gas production sites, energy storage systems and a file with polygons for photovoltaic field systems. The dataset also includes the point data as a csv files.The data set is a site-verified data extract from the Marktstammdatenregister (Core energy market data register) (MaStR) of the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) (BNetzA) as of January 4, 2024. System-relevant information was additionally checked for plausibility and, if necessary, corrected by individual research work.

The steps of data processing can be found under the Git repository https://git.ufz.de/manske/regeoloc.

A detailed description of the data processing can be found in the related article https://doi.org/10.3390/data7090128

Metrics

The table provides some metrics of the compiled datasets compared to the data extract from the reference source at the given time.

Dataset (V20240104)
n records
sum capacity
Records not included from reference source*(n records / sum capacity)

Bioenergy
22,572
9144 MW
1 / 0.01

Cogeneration_Units
12,994
29,658 MW
not applicable

Energy_Storage
618
11,140 MW
20 / 74

Gas_Production
255
85,792 MWh / h
56 / 0.007

Hydropower
8644
5502 MW
2 / 0.03

Solar_Energy_Polygons
8789
not applicable
not applicable

Solar_Energy
10,257
21,126 MW
6775 / 274

Wind_Energy_Onshore
30,096
62,405 MW
922 / 50

Wind_Energy_Offshore
1563
8439 MW
1 / 6.3

* There are many reasons why records were not included. In most cases, the record could not be associated with a specific location due to incorrect or insufficient location information in the reference source.

Version History

Version
Documentation

V20240204
This version contains geo-locations and system data of renewable energy installations up to the cut-off date 2024/01/04. Please also check the release notes within the dataset.

V20230420
This version contains geo-locations and system data of renewable energy installations up to the cut-off date 2023/04/20. Please also check the release notes within the dataset.

V20210507
This version contains geo-locations and system data of renewable energy installations up to the cut-off date 2021/05/07.