Open Data PVNet

[peterdudfield]

To kick-off the 2025, we want to build an open-source solar forecasting pipeline that uses publicly available data to predict solar generation at the national level, starting with the UK.

Tasks include:
⚡️ Identifying gridded Numerical Weather Prediction datasets
⚡️ Downloading this NWP data and transforming it into the preferred Zarr format
⚡️ Acquiring solar generation target data through APIs such as PVlive's solar generation and capacity API
⚡️ Creating pipelines for batching data
⚡️ ML model experimentation

We're looking for data engineers, machine learning enthusiasts and software developers with Python expertise. If you're passionate about renewable energy and open-source collaboration, then reach out to us today and join our mission.

You can check out the github repo and the project plan.