Data Sources & Licenses
EnergyAccessDesigner is an independent demonstration. Its results combine typical-year weather, synthetic demand and simplified engineering assumptions. Source credits below do not imply endorsement by the data providers.
Weather and solar resource
Site weather comes from the European Commission Joint Research Centre's PVGIS 5.2 Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) API. A TMY joins selected historical months; it is neither a measured year at the clicked site nor a forecast. The API's hourly values are interpolated to 15-minute steps for this model. Solar radiation in the 50 stored African representative weather files is identified as PVGIS-SARAH2, originating from EUMETSAT CM SAF; other meteorological variables are identified as ERA5 (ECMWF/Copernicus). See the PVGIS source guide and TMY explanation.
The locally preloaded Nairobi file lacks the original PVGIS input metadata needed to prove its exact underlying radiation and meteorological databases. New site downloads depend on PVGIS's current database selection. The separate EUMETSAT data policy and Copernicus product license need a further use-specific review before raw weather or trained artifacts are redistributed.
Demand profiles
Village, School and Health Facility are synthetic, illustrative 15-minute load curves generated by this project. They are not metered households, real schools or patient data. The school calendar and load-scale choices are assumptions, not an official local timetable or a prediction of a real site's demand.
Map and location labels
The Africa outline is documented as derived from Natural Earth Admin 0 Countries data; see its public-domain terms. Provenance of the separate map mask is still being verified. Boundaries are illustrative. Map tiles use Stadia Maps Alidade Smooth Dark with OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap data. Their attribution remains visible on the map. City/region labels come from Nominatim reverse geocoding, based on OpenStreetMap data; see the OSM copyright and attribution information.
Software and currency display
The interactive map uses locally hosted Leaflet 1.9.4. The site self-hosts DM Sans and Manrope under their SIL Open Font Licenses. The server uses FastAPI, Uvicorn, NumPy, pandas, pvlib, scikit-learn and other pinned Python libraries. Copyright and license notices for redistributed frontend assets are included in the third-party notices; the pinned runtime dependency list is in the project repository. Optional USD display uses an ECB reference exchange rate, which is informational and does not change optimization economics.