Challenge 4: Catching up with photovoltaic expansion

Published pv installed capacity underestimates pv production. We want to estimate pv installed capacity considering pv growth patterns.

Description

Pronovo is the entity that provides a very good overview of installed pv systems in Switzerland and many market players use the Pronovo database to estimate PV production. Unfortunately, there are major delays between the installation of the pv systems and the recording in the Pronovo database. This wasn't a bigger issue so far, but the swiss pv market is growing rapidly and so the lag is causing a general underestimation of pv power production.

With additional information on the pv systems such as installation date, audit date, date of entry into the database, we would like to identify patterns, trends and seasonalities in order to be able to better and continuously estimate the current status of the pv expansion.

Data Description (only relevant features)

Feature Name Description Description2
kev_nr id chr
auditdatum on-site check if system exists dd.mm.yyyy
kev_ibm_formular_beg_datum date attestation reaches pronovo dd.mm.yyyy
kev_ibm_meldung_komlpett_datum date attestation and all necessary documents reaches pronovo (can be udes as proxy for DB entry date) dd.mm.yyyy
kev_zweitkontrolle_datum date payment of one-off compensation (einmalvergĂĽtung) dd.mm.yyyy
plz zip code int
ort municipality chr
kanton kanton chr
land coutntry chr
realisierte_leistung_erstinbetriebnahme first registered installed capacity in KW float
realisierte_leistung_inkl_erweiterungen actual registered installed capacity in KW float
geplantes_inbetriebnahmedatum planned putting into operation dd.mm.yyyy
inbetriebnahme putted into operation dd.mm.yyyy