The SolarSMART Social Energy Atlas 2020 Georgia Interview dataset provides results from interviews with 2018 residents of the State of Georgia above the age of 18 on their perceptions of photovoltaic solar energy. The interview includes the following: demographic information for each respondent, their location in the state (by ZIP Code); the type of house they reside within; whether they have or have not adopted solar energy (and if so, how did they adopt solar energy); audio recordings of a semi-structured interview between the informants and representatives from the project who were often agents from the UGA Cooperative Extension Service; and the outputs from that interview that also included draw-a-map responses to where they perceived people adopted solar technologies in the United States and the State of Georgia. Respondents were from 25 of the 159 counties of the State of Georgia, with representation of both urban and rural residents. In total, the dataset includes 25 variables currently coded (with over 170 identified. Transcriptions of the interviews are also provided in the dataset alongside graphics for each informant that can be used in presentations and other derivatives involving this dataset in the future. This dataset inspired the SolarSMART 2020 Georgia Survey dataset (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4540819).

This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office as part of the Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies II Program - Award #DE-EE0007664.