How PVGIS can help you
Are you planning to install PV or want to check the performance of an existing system? PVGIS can help to answer questions such as:
- How much electricity could photovoltaics produce where I live?
- How does production change over the year?
Want to know more? Try the PVGIS interactive application.
New versions of the PVGIS web tool and API service for testing
We're just made a complete update of the PVGIS software. The backend code is now in Python and a public version is available on the Commission’s Gitlab EC CODE). The underlying solar dataset offers satellite and reanalysis solar irradiation data as for PVGIS 5.3, but now covers from 2014 up to 2024.
Interested? Check out the public beta versions and let us know what you think.
Key Features
- Free and open access to photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation potential for different technologies and system configurations.
- No registration
- Extensive supporting documentation - see the links at the bottom of this page.
- First time user? Check out the Getting started section
- APIs for fast, automated access needs.
- Maps of solar resource and PV potential, by country or region, in ready to print files.
- Available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German (PVGIS5 only).
- Standardised output (typical meteorological year) for building energy calculations (PVGIS 5 only)
