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Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks

The U.S. Department of Energy’s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel...

Basore, P. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Dec 22, 2025
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Understanding the Evolution of Customer Motivations and Adoption Barriers in Residential Solar Markets: Survey Data

This research focused on accelerating solar photovoltaic (PV) diffusion by collecting new market data and developing predictive modeling frameworks to test and refine understandings of household level motivations for adopting solar. Three different household-level surveys were...

Sigrin, B. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 22, 2017
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Metering Best Practices Applied in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Research Support Facility: A Primer to the 2011 Measured and Modeled Energy Consumption Datasets

Modern buildings are complex energy systems that must be controlled for energy efficiency. The Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has hundreds of controllers computers that communicate with the building's various control systems to...

Sheppy, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 25, 2016
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks: Q1 2021

NREL has been modeling U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) system costs since 2009. This year, our report benchmarks costs of U.S. PV for residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems, with and without storage, built in the first quarter of 2021 (Q1 2021). The methodology includes b...

Ramasamy, V. and Feldman, D. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 08, 2021
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Advanced TidGen Power System 2.0 Presentation of System

The TidGen Power System generates emission-free electricity from tidal currents and connects directly into existing grids using smart grid technology. The power system consists of three major subsystems: shore-side power electronics, mooring system, and turbine generator unit (TGU...

Marnagh, C. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jun 14, 2018
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Advanced TidGen Power System Summary Presentation

Marnagh, C. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

May 10, 2018
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Focusing Wave Energy for Wave Energy Converter Applications

Wave tank tests at Stevens Institute of Technology quantified the ability of near-surface platforms to concentrate wave energy over the platform. Due to the instantaneous change in water depth, mass, energy, and power are conserved in this process. The energy and power concentrat...

Raftery, M. Stevens Institute of Technology

Aug 10, 2010
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Net Shape Fabricated Low Cost MHK Pass-Through the Hub Turbine Blades with Integrated Health Management Technology

The primary objective of this project is to develop a three-blade MHK rotor with low manufacturing and maintenance costs. The proposed program will design, fabricate and test a novel half-scale low cost, net shape fabricated single piece three-blade MHK rotor with integrated healt...

Wess, D. ARL Penn State

Feb 09, 2016
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TEAMER: Tidal Currents Turbine Parametric Study Flow, Power, Torque, and Energy Optimization

This is an exercise in optimizing the flow through a shrouded axial turbine to have the least resistance and to have optimal output and torque and energy. In this study, different variations of the original geometry of the current turbine designed by Hydrokinetic Energy Corp. (HEC...

Schurtenberger, W. and Ge, Z. Hydrokinetic Energy Corp.

Jul 30, 2021
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TEAMER: Long Island Sound Tidal Resource Assessment Geodatabase Model

This submission includes the Long Island Sound (LIS) Tidal Energy Resource Geodatabase developed collaboratively by Integral Consulting Inc. and Future Island Impact (FII) as part of a TEAMER-supported pre-feasibility study. The geodatabase is provided as a QGIS project and includ...

Flanary, C. and Tanguay, N. Integral Consulting Inc.

Jul 10, 2025
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Public Reference Data for Megawatt-Scale Hydrogen Electrolysis NLR Historical Solar PV

The U.S. Department of Energy and National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) demonstrate hydrogen electrolysis from variable sources, hydrogen compression and storage, and hydrogen fuel cell power production using megawatt-scale equipment at NLR’s Flatirons Campus as part of the A...

Abel, R. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Jun 15, 2026
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Wind Speed Dataset with Observation And Copula-based Bias Correction and Multi-Model Fusion at 23 U.S. Locations

This dataset provides two related products of bias-corrected hourly wind speed at 23 U.S. sites spanning coastal, inland, mountainous, and plains regions, designed for energy applications and wind-related research. Physics-based models carry systematic biases relative to observati...

Zhang, W. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Jun 15, 2026
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StingRAY WEC Risk Register

Risk Registers for major subsystems of the StingRAY WEC completed in compliance with the DOE Risk Management Framework developed by NREL.

Rhinefrank, K. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Feb 24, 2017
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TEAMER: Reliability Analysis and New Technology Qualification of an Infinitely Variable Transmission for Tidal Energy Converters

This project leverages the complementary expertise of American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to establish a comprehensive qualification and reliability assessment framework for an infinitely variable transmission (IVT). INL will implement an advanced...

Zhang, X. et al Mississippi State University

Aug 21, 2026
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Public Reference Data for Megawatt-Scale Hydrogen Electrolysis NLR Historical Wind

The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) demonstrate hydrogen electrolysis from variable sources, hydrogen compression and storage, and hydrogen fuel cell power production using megawatt-scale equipment at NLR’s Flatirons Campus as par...

Abel, R. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Mar 23, 2026
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Rooftop Energy Potential of Low Income Communities in America REPLICA

The Rooftop Energy Potential of Low Income Communities in America REPLICA data set provides estimates of residential rooftop solar technical potential at the tract-level with emphasis on estimates for Low and Moderate Income LMI populations. In addition to technical potential REPL...

Mooney, M. and Sigrin, B. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 03, 2018
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Efficiency and Demand Flexibility in Large Office Buildings

Data is associated with Report "Efficiency and Demand Flexibility in Large Office Buildings" by Joyce McLaren, Thomas Bowen, and Chioke Harris (https://doi.org/10.2172/1989231). Results are created from repos GEB_ECM_Impact_Estimator (https://github.nlr.gov/tbowen/GEB_ECM_Impact_E...

McLaren, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 13, 2023
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2016 Annual Technology Baseline

Current and future cost and performance data for electricity generating technologies, including both renewable and conventional technologies.

Hand, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 12, 2016
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Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)

The Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and DeploYment of Solar (STEADy Solar) is a database and mapping tool designed to promoting clean energy investments for low-income communities across the United States. The tool indicates locations that may be eligible for the Investment ...

Ferrall-Wolf, I. and McLaren, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 24, 2024
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MHK Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) Guidance and Techno-Economic Analysis Materials

Useful information and tools for calculating the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and MHK Cost Breakdown Structure. Includes a structure for calculating the capital expenditures and operating costs of a marine energy technology or device, reference resource data for both wave and ...

Jenne, S. and Baca, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 08, 2019
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Biomass for Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) Counterfactual Decision Tree

Counterfactual is the term used to describe a "business-as-usual" scenario which used as a baseline to compare against a new project, allowing the calculation of net impacts for a life cycle analysis (LCA). The choice of counterfactual is critical for determining the results from ...

Harman-Ware, A. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Dec 18, 2025
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Data Files for “The 2030 National Charging Network: Estimating U.S. Light-Duty Demand for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure"

This data set includes modeling results from “The 2030 National Charging Network: Estimating U.S. Light-Duty Demand for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure” including region-specific [i.e., national, state, and core-based statistical area (CBSA)—cities/towns] electric v...

Wood, E. and Borlaug, B. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 26, 2023
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Gearbox Reliability Collaborative Phase 3 Gearbox 2 Test

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Gearbox Reliability Collaborative (GRC) was established by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2006; its key goal is to understand the root causes of premature gearbox failures and improve their reliability. The GRC uses a combined gear...

Keller, J. and Robb, W. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 02, 2016
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory/Habitat for Humanity Zero Energy Home: A Cold Climate Case Study for Affordable Zero Energy Homes

The design of this 1,280-square-foot, three-bedroom Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver zero energy home carefully combines envelope efficiency, efficient equipment, appliances and lighting, and passive and active solar features to reach the zero energy goal. The home was designe...

Norton, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 21, 2016
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Utility-Scale Solar, 2025 Edition: Analysis of Empirical Plant-level Data from U.S. Ground-mounted PV, PV+battery, and CSP Plants (exceeding 5 MWAC)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory compiled and synthesized empirical data on the U.S. utility-scale solar sector. Utility-scale solar is defined here to include ground-mounted systems larger than 5MW-AC. Smaller projects are covered in Berkeley Lab's separate U.S. Distributed ...

Seel, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Sep 25, 2025
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