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European Economic Area (EEA) developers If your billing address is in the European Economic Area, effective on 8 July 2025, the Google Maps Platform EEA Terms of Service will apply to your use of the Services. Learn more. In addition, certain content from the Solar API will no longer be returned. Learn more.The Google Maps Platform Solar API is a service focused on helping accelerate solar and energy system installations. The Solar API generates detailed rooftop data based on Google's extensive geospatial data and computing resources in order to evaluate rooftop solar energy potential.
Why use the Solar APIThe API accepts requests for three endpoints:
buildingInsights: This service endpoint returns insights about the location, dimensions, and solar potential of a building.
dataLayers: This service endpoint returns URLs for raw solar information datasets for an area surrounding a location.
geoTiff: This endpoint fetches rasters with encoded solar information, including a digital surface model, an aerial image, annual and monthly flux maps, and hourly shade.
This data can help users:
See Solar API supported countries and regions for the latest coverage details, on a country-by-country basis.
Try the Solar API demoTo learn more about the capabilities of the Solar API, check out the Solar API demo web app. You can also optionally reuse the code used to build the demo in GitHub.
How to use the Solar API What's nextExcept as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Last updated 2025-08-18 UTC.
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