solar-calc-go

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SolarCalc

Calculate solar rooftop potential using a post address

From the resulting json we can remove the following fields:

• roofSegmentStats
• solarPanelConfigs
• solarPanels
• financialAnalyses and feed the rest to an LLM model to predict the solar potential.

Usage

go build -o solarcalc

export GOOGLE_API_KEY=<your_google_api_key>
./solarcalc "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA" > output.json

# remove solarPotential.roofSegmentStats, solarPotential.solarPanelConfigs, solarPotential.solarPanels:
cat output.json | jq 'del(.solarPotential.roofSegmentStats, .solarPotential.solarPanelConfigs, .solarPotential.solarPanels, .solarPotential.financialAnalyses)'

TODO:

• convert GeoTiff (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/solar/geotiff) to COG and then to PNG - see
  • https://www.cogeo.org/
  • https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal (https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal/blob/master/examples/tiff/tiff.go)
  • https://github.com/airbusgeo/godal
  • https://github.com/airbusgeo/cogger
  • https://github.com/SvenPfiffner/GeoTiffConverter
  • https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-solar-potential/blob/main/src/routes/layer.ts