Wiki-Solar information provision - further notes for users

The following should help you interpret your Wiki-Solar reports:

1. All data are compiled from the Wiki-Solar Database at the time the report is produced. Unless specified otherwise at the bottom of a report, statistical analysis is based on projects of 4MW_AC and above, or as defined in the definitions here.
2. This data is compiled from recognised sources such as the UNFCCC, Government Departments of Energy, Energy Information Administration, and from media reports, company websites and other sources as described here.
3. Pre-delivery quality assurance of reports takes the form of consistency-checking in line with the approach outlined under Validating the Data. Reports and listings are prepared in good faith E&OE. Where customers require more detailed auditing of data, they should request a separate quotation.
4. We do not warrant that the information is 100% accurate nor complete. It is likely that our figures marginally understate the size of the market because of projects of which we are unaware.
5. The completeness of various aspects of the data varies from market to market depending on the prevailing commercial and economic characteristics of different jurisdictions.
6. Site locations may be based on satellite data, planning applications, site plans, given coordinates or the nearest town. Their accuracy cannot be guaranteed until plants show on satellite images.
7. Website addresses for listed participants are shown where we have this on record.
8. We do not list contact personnel for participant organisations, because our data protection policy and registration prevent us from making this data publicly available. Many organisations' personnel are in liaison with Wiki-Solar to provide updated site data or notify us of new plants, but these individuals will not necessarily be those that prospective partners would wish to contact.
9. The country listed against each participant is that where their head office is located. It is not necessarily where they conduct the majority of their business. The project lists for the top participants are typically listed in order of the country where they are sited.

All data is provided ‘errors and omissions excepted’. See also the terms and conditions on the right.

Data format

As specified on each report order page, Wiki-Solar reports are produced in Excel (XLSX) or Portable Data Format (PDF) files. A supplementary Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file of site footprints can be ordered with worldwide and continental project lists.

Data supply terms & conditions

Our reports are prepared expressly to your specific requirements. They should not be copied or distrib-uted to third parties without our express consent.

All reports are based on the projects listed on the Wiki-Solar Database at the time the report was produced. More projects are being added continuously, and projects are occasionally removed if they are found to be duplicates of others, or become cancelled.

Reports are delivered E&OE and we do not warrant that they are complete, or that listed organisations will be suitable counter-parties for other projects.

Our full terms and conditions are available here.

Standard reports available

We produce the following types of report, based on the extensive data on the global deployment of utility-scale solar power generation in the Wiki-Solar Database.

List of projects in selected countries

Projects worldwide or in a continent

Overviews of any country or continent

Lists of project participants in a region