Data article: Distributed PV power data for three cities in Australia.

This dataset is as presented in the paper titled "Data article: Distributed PV power data for three cities in Australia." in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, volume 11 by Jamie M, Bright, Sven Killinger and Nicholas A. Engerer.

Abstract:
We present a publicly available dataset containing photovoltaic (PV) system power measurements and metadata from 1,287 residential installations across three states/territories in Australia--- though mainly for the cities of Canberra, Perth and Adelaide. 
The data is recorded between September 2016 and March 2017 at 10-min temporal resolution and consists of real inverter reported power measurements from PV systems that are well distributed throughout each city. The dataset represents a considerably valuable resource as public access to spatio-temporal PV power data is almost non-existent; this dataset has been used in numerous articles already by the authors. The PV power data is free to download and is available in its raw, quality controlled (QC) and `tuned' formats. Each PV system is accompanied by individual metadata including geolocation, user reported metadata and simulated parameterisation. Data provenance,download, usage rights and example usage are detailed within. 
Researchers are encouraged to leverage this rich spatio-temporal dataset of distributed PV power data in their research.

Further information is available at ANU Data Commons and Solcast. 
This dataset has an embargo period for 3 years after the ARENA funded ANU project closure, though data is always available through Solcast.

Usage rights:

There is a non-standard data usage rights agreement for this data. In the uploads is a 'license and metadata.txt' file that details the usage rights and metadata of the data. The exact agreement is reproduced here:

The data is released with bespoke terms. We state the crucial elements of these terms here. The dataset is freely provided to researchers as is with no guarantee of support. The dataset is not for commercial usage, but for research only. You are empowered to use this dataset however you wish in your research, through direct usage, adaptation, or improvements to the data itself. The data must not be redistributed, the access point for the data is exclusively through the website as described in Sec.III of the manuscript. Should you make significant changes to the data and wish to redistribute the new data, explicit permission must be obtained from the authors. Finally, appropriate accreditation to the creators must be made in all publications and outputs that arise from using this dataset in any way.  To appropriately accredit the creators, we require that this exact data article (Bright et al., 2019) is referenced alongside its DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/5ca6a0640869a. Additionally, if using the QC version of the data, we also require a citation for the original papers detailing QCPV (Killinger et al., 2016a, 2016a).  Furthermore, if using the tuned PV version of this data, we also require a citation for both the QCPV papers above and the PV tuning papers (Killinger et al., 2016b, 2017b) for full visibility of the data provenance. Lastly, the original hosts of this data PVoutput.org should be recognised for their efforts.

References:

 Bright, Jamie M.; Killinger, Sven; and Engerer, Nicholas A. 2019. Data article: Distributed PV power data for three cities in Australia. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Vol 11. See online for full details.

Killinger, Sven; Braam, Felix; Muller, Bjorn; Wille-Haussmann, Bernhard and McKenna, Russell, 2016a. Projection of power generation between differently-oriented PV systems. Solar Energy. 136, 153-165.

 Killinger, Sven; Muller, Bjorn; Saint-Drenan, Yves Marie and McKenna, Russell. 2016b. Towards an improved nowcasting method by evaluating power profiles of PV systems to detect apparently atypical behavior. Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic specialists Conference, pages 980-985.10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749757

 Killinger, Sven; Engerer, Nicholas and Müller, Björn. 2017a. QCPV: A quality control algorithm for distributed photovoltaic array power output. Solar Energy. 143, 120-131.

 Killinger, Sven; Bright, Jamie M.; Lingfors, David and Engerer, Nicholas A. 2017b. A tuning routine to correct systematic influences in reference PV systems’ power outputs. Solar Energy. 157, 6.