Malaga launches the Solar Atlas platform: calculate if photovoltaic energy is profitable for your building

Chus Heredia

The Málaga City Council has added a new digital tool to the website of the Municipal Photovoltaic Information Office: the Solar Atlas. It is an interactive resource accessible via web. ... It allows Malaga residents to quickly and easily understand the solar potential of their building, the energy it could generate, and the estimated savings to facilitate decision-making about the use of solar energy.

Councilor for Innovation, Digitalization, and Investment Attraction, Alicia Izquierdo, has reported on this tool that allows users to enter their address or navigate directly to locate their property and obtain an immediate analysis of their rooftop through an interactive map.

Viable Surface

From this query, the Solar Atlas provides a clear and understandable estimate of the building's potential. Among the available information, it includes the approximate space that could be allocated for solar panels, the amount of energy that could be generated throughout the year, and the percentage of electrical consumption that could be covered with that production.

Additionally, the tool provides an economic approximation that helps understand the viability of the project, with an estimation of the investment, the annual savings on the bill, and the approximate time in which this investment could be recovered. In this way, any citizen can estimate the profitability of this installation.

In a Few Minutes

The tool allows you to know in a few minutes if a building is suitable for producing solar energy and what benefits it could obtain, without the need for prior technical knowledge.

The tool includes an energy calculator that allows obtaining a personalized report based on the real electrical consumption data of the user. The system uses the information from their electricity bill, analyzing consumption habits and adapting the study to their specific situation.

From this data, the calculator generates a simple simulation that shows how one could participate in an energy community and what impact it would have on their consumption. The user can find out what part of their electrical demand could be covered with shared solar energy and what level of participation would correspond to them within the project.

The tool includes an energy calculator that allows obtaining a personalized report based on the real electrical consumption data of the user.

Additionally, the report includes a clear economic estimate, with the approximate necessary investment, the annual savings on the electric bill, and the estimated time to recover that investment. In this way, the user can quickly understand if participating in an energy community is economically interesting from their perspective.

The City Council, through the Municipal Photovoltaic Information Office, offers free online training to learn how to use the Solar Atlas and the energy calculator.

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