General description

In 2024, the French Department of Isère created a partnership with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes geographic information center (CRAIG) in order to evaluate some roofs’ photovoltaic potential inside their territory.

After publishing a work on modelling roof photovoltaic potential, the CRAIG wished to develop a QGIS plugin that reproduces automatically the processing chain which has been set up as part of the partnership with the French Department of Isère.

Thus, QSunPotential plugin was designed to evaluate the solar potential of roofs by using PVGIS European tools which provide calculation services. PVGIS provides an API to which QSunPotential sends requests and retrieves photovoltaic potential on a point of each roof. PVGIS API gives results at a monthly and annual levels.