Australian PV Institute website

[Vostok]

Why did I not discover this website earlier

Australian Photovoltaic Institute • Mapping Australian Photovoltaic installations

pv-map.apvi.org.au

Interactive map which shows the proportion of dwellings around Australia with rooftop solar PV, or total installed capacity. Can be filtered by postcode, LGA or State electorate.

Four postcodes apparently have over 100% penetration (data robustness error? ) followed by 2174 (Edmonson Park NSW) with 95.2%, 6181 (Stake Hill in WA) with 87.3% and 5117 (Angle Vale in SA) with 82.9%.

The lowest is 2109 (Macquarie Uni, NSW) with a single 21 kW installation.

A few years ago I cobbled together a view on this using the same data sources, but APVI have done a much nicer job and map it as well as keep it up to date.

There are also tabs on this website to look at real-time PV production and other data that is heaven for stat-junkies out there.

 

[paulp]

Nice find! Lots of data.

 

[moa999]

Four postcodes apparently have over 100% penetration

Probably using stale data on number of houses in fast growing suburbs.

 

[Chuq]

For reference, I think OpenNEM uses this data for their “behind the meter” rooftop solar generation stats.

 

[Vostok]

Probably using stale data on number of houses in fast growing suburbs.

That must be it. They state that dwelling data comes from ABS stats from the 2016 census, extrapolated forward based on the average growth rate in that postcode since the census before that. Clearly that will be totally out of whack for new estates, whereas the installation of PV using SRECs is basically real time. The 2021 census data will be released from mid this year so will get a refresh then.

 

[paulp]

That must be it. They state that dwelling data comes from ABS stats from the 2016 census, extrapolated forward based on the average growth rate in that postcode since the census before that. Clearly that will be totally out of whack for new estates, whereas the installation of PV using SRECs is basically real time. The 2021 census data will be released from mid this year so will get a refresh then.

My beachside suburb in Adelaide has a 100kw+ system from the penrith rsl club apparently

 

[Vostok]

My beachside suburb in Adelaide has a 100kw+ system from the penrith rsl club apparently

Oops… scooting over the Penrith RSL on the map I can indeed see it is missing I better ring them up to tell them someone nicked it .

Any large dataset is going to have integrity issues. They don’t seem to have a “contact us” page where errors can be reported.

 

[Vostok]

They really did install one…

“Penrith RSL is mindful of its green footprint on the community and is proud of the installation of a massive solar system consisting of 800 panels or 200kW, making it the largest install in the club industry”

CEO's Report May 2015 - Penrith RSL

Another year done and dusted and 2014 was indeed a year of two halves. The figures recorded in the first half of 2014 displayed our struggle with some aggressive competition. However a strong come back in the second half of the year ended in a better than expected result, recording a net profit...

www.penrithrsl.com.au

Impressive for 2015.

 

[Maximillan]

200kw in order to offset the cost of running 300 pokies.

 

[Nobody Famous]

200kw in order to offset the cost of running 300 782 pokies.

FTFY

 

[Maximillan]

In case you're confusing it with that other fine Pokie establishment in Penrith, my source:

https://www.liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/excel_doc/0008/938114/Clubs-State-rankings-by-gaming-machine-net-profit-1-Dec-2019-31-May-2020.xlsx

Regardless, it's interesting being "mindful of one's green footprint on the community" and completely forgetting about the other footprint on the community.