CoalMap from team FossilFree
CoalMap is an open-source demonstration of the timeline for economically replacing U.S. coal-fired power plants with utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generation. The project was for one of the challenges in MIT Clean Earth Hackathon.
Contacts
Tony Wu, Joel Jean, David Borrelli, Fanni Fan.
References
EIA Levelized Cost outlook for new generation assets: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf
PV data: https://developer.nrel.gov/
Google Map API: https://developers.google.com/maps/
Design: Bootstrap, JQuery, FontsAwesome, Google Fonts.
We no longer use the following cover photo in our webpage, but we still like to thank the author:
"Sideka Solartechnik Ibbenbüren 5" by Sideka Solartechnik - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sideka_Solartechnik_Ibbenb%C3%BCren_5.JPG#/media/File:Sideka_Solartechnik_Ibbenb%C3%BCren_5.JPG
License
The project is released under MIT License.