Version 2 of the Great Midwest Solar Energy Utility Scale (GM-SEUS) dataset was released, now tracking over 3.4 million solar panels with a new rooftop array component. The article provides technical workflows for analyzing the dataset using GDAL and DuckDB with spatial extensions, reflecting tooling for large-scale geospatial infrastructure analysis.
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3.4M Solar Panels
GM-SEUS dataset v2 expands to track 3.4M solar panels including rooftop arrays, enabling comprehensive geospatial analysis of distributed US renewable infrastructure with modern tools like DuckDB spatial extensions.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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