US Solar Farm Locations & Specs: data from the U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (Radius Search, MW, Acres, Tracking, Battery)

Get every large ground-mounted solar facility in the United States (about 6,600 sites of 1 MW and up) from U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) data: coordinates, project name, online year, AC and DC capacity in MW, footprint in acres, tracking type, tilt and azimuth, co-located battery storage, agrivoltaic flag, balancing authority and EIA plant ID. No API key, no login. Published by BigSky Data Tools.

Reference data only: USPVDB is updated periodically and may lag or omit facilities; verify against the official USPVDB (energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb) and EIA records before relying on it.

Why use this solar farm data tool?

• 📍 Radius search, nearest first: "every solar farm within 20 miles of this parcel, substation or data-center site". Each row has distanceMiles.
• ⚡ Size and design specs: capacityAcMw, capacityDcMw, areaAcres, axis (fixed-tilt, single-axis, dual-axis), tilt, azimuth, panel technology.
• 🔋 Battery filter: hasBattery flags solar + storage hybrids.
• 🔎 Filters: states, project name, online year range, minimum MW, tracking type.
• 🔗 Join key: eiaPlantId links to EIA generation and ownership data.

How it compares

In our Apify Store search on 2026-10-31 we did not find another Actor offering all of the features marked Yes below together; some alternatives offer individual features, as the "Typical alternatives" column shows. The Store may have changed since.

	This tool	Typical alternatives
USPVDB facility footprints and design specs	Yes	No (EIA plant lists)
Radius search, nearest first	Yes	No
Tracking, tilt, azimuth, battery flag	Yes	No
EIA plant ID join key	Yes	Yes

Who uses it

Solar and storage developers scouting land and interconnection, land agents and appraisers, O&M, panel-cleaning, vegetation and security vendors, tracker and inverter sellers, insurers, utilities and grid planners, real-estate buyers checking nearby solar farms, and energy researchers.

Input example

{ "latitude": "35.2271", "longitude": "-80.8431", "radiusMiles": 30 }

Large solar + storage in two states: { "states": ["CA", "AZ"], "withBatteryOnly": true, "minCapacityMw": 50, "axis": "single-axis" }

Output example

{ "caseId": 400540, "projectName": "McCoy Solar Energy Project Hybrid", "projectYear": 2016, "state": "CA", "county": "Riverside",
  "latitude": 33.7017, "longitude": -114.7558, "distanceMiles": null, "capacityAcMw": 270.6, "capacityDcMw": 339.3,
  "areaM2": 6954929, "areaAcres": 1718.6, "technology": "PV", "panelTechnology": "thin-film", "axis": "single-axis",
  "azimuth": 0, "tilt": 0, "hasBattery": true, "siteType": "greenfield", "agrivoltaic": "non-agrivoltaic",
  "powerRegion": "CISO", "eiaPlantId": 58462, "imageDate": 20210815, "digitizationConfidence": 4,
  "source": "U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USGS/LBNL)", "sourceUrl": "https://energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb/" }

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or use the Apify API, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Pricing

$7 per 1,000 results ($0.007 per result) plus a $0.01 start fee per run.

Pay per result: you pay for each solar facility saved to the dataset. A radius search usually returns a few dozen sites; the whole country is about 6,600. Use maxResults to cap your spend. Free-plan users can try it within their monthly platform credit.

Apify's per-run maximum charge setting also limits results: for example, a $4.44 limit allows about 632 rows. Raise it in the run options for a full pull.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the public API of the U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Source data are works of the U.S. federal government (USGS, with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and generally not subject to U.S. copyright (17 U.S.C. 105). LBNL is a contractor-operated laboratory, so its contributions may not be federal works. This is not a license or warranty; third-party or foreign rights may apply. You are responsible for how you use the data. What is covered? Ground-mounted PV facilities of roughly 1 MW AC or more. Rooftop and small community solar are not included. How current is it? USPVDB is updated periodically (roughly yearly). Very new projects may lag. Why are some fields empty? USPVDB leaves some attributes (tilt, azimuth, axis, panel technology) blank for some facilities. Each row's attributeNote names every empty field: not reported in USPVDB for this facility, not applicable: dual-axis trackers have no fixed tilt, or for distanceMiles not applicable: no search center given. It is null when nothing is empty. Is this tool run by the data agency? No. BigSky Data Tools is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by USGS or LBNL.

Is the data guaranteed? No. The tool and data are provided as is, without warranty of accuracy, completeness or timeliness, and values can differ from the source agency's official products.