CH-ALPV300: Hourly Alpine-PV Potential Profiles in Switzerland
Datasets
Hourly Alpine photovoltaic (PV) potential profiles for Switzerland, covering the year 2016 and spatially aggregated to two levels: Swiss alpine municipalities and the nodes of the Swiss electricity transmission grid. Six scenarios combine land suitability mask, terrain restrictions (elevation, slope, aspect), road accessibility, hazard zones, and either an elevation range or a pixel-level winter specific yield filter, providing per-pixel installed capacity and aggregated hourly generation profiles for ~713 alpine communes and ~126 transmission grid nodes. What is in this dataset - **Hourly generation profiles** (`energy_yield`, in Wh) for each aggregation unit - **Installed capacity** (`installed_capacity_mwp`, in MWp) and **pixel count** (`pixel_count`) per unit - **Seasonal sums** (`annual_gwh`, `winter_gwh`, `summer_gwh`, in GWh) per unit - **Polygon geometries** (`geometry`, WKT in EPSG:2056) for each aggregation unit, embedded directly in the NetCDF - **Global attributes** recording scenario name, panel tilt, GCR method, POA mode, and PV system parameters Six scenarios Scenarios vary the site-selection approach (elevation range vs. pixel-level winter specific yield threshold