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Bias Corrected Near-Surface Wind Data for Solar Field Siting

This dataset catalogs a long-term high-resolution data set characterizing the near-surface hourly wind speed variations at two solar sites in the Southwest U.S. This dataset demonstrates the potential for integrating improved near-surface wind data into CST and PV planning tools f...

Emes, M. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Jun 12, 2026
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Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity Workbooks for 2022 Cambium Data

These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. A LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a change in electric demand, taking into account how the change could ...

Gagnon, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 15, 2023
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Typical Solar Years (TSYs) and Typical Wind Years (TWYs) for the Assessment of PV System and Wind Turbine Performance

This dataset comprises Typical Solar Years (TSYs) and Typical Wind Years (TWYs) for the efficient assessment of PV system and wind turbine performance for over 2,000 locations across the U.S. TSYs and TWYs are single synthetic years generated from the National Aeronautics and Spac...

Zeng, Z. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Jul 14, 2024
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Wind and Structural Loads on Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors at Nevada Solar One

Wind loading is a main contributor to structural design costs of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) collectors, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs. These structures must resist the mechanical forces generated by turbulent wind. At the same time, the reflector surfaces must exhi...

Egerer, U. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Oct 01, 2021
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U.S. Wind and Solar PV Supply Curves with Future Land-use Change

This dataset provides future supply curves representing the total resource potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment in the conterminous United States after accounting for the impact of land-use and land-cover change (LULC). We use LULC projections from ...

Sergi, B. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 10, 2024
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U.S. Agrivoltaics Irradiance Database

This is a foundational data set for research and deployment of agrivoltaics, which is the co-location of agriculture and solar power plants on the same land. This irradiance and shading dataset can be utilized to determine the suitability of agrivoltaics configurations for a given...

Ovaitt, S. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Nov 05, 2025
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PV Module Standoff and T98 Safety Maps for the United States (IEC 61730, 70 & 80 Celsius)

This dataset provides high-resolution maps of modeled photovoltaic (PV) module standoff distance and associated thermal conditions across the United States for two thermal design scenarios (T98 = 70 degrees C and 80 degrees C), representing distinct module temperature limits used ...

Springer, M. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Apr 13, 2026
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Manufacturing Thermal Energy Use in 2014

The first data set estimates thermal energy use (i.e., fuels combusted for process heating, boilers, and combined heat and power/cogeneration) by end use, temperature, county, and facility employment size class for all U.S. manufacturing industries in 2014. The estimation methodol...

McMillan, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 27, 2019
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Tracking the Sun

Berkeley Lab's Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing installed prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report, the 11th edition in the series, focuses on systems installed thro...

Barbose, G. and Darghouth, N. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Oct 01, 2019
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National Climate Database (NCDB)

The National Climate Database (NCDB) is a high resolution, bias-corrected climate dataset consisting of the three most widely used variables of solar radiation global horizontal (GHI), direct normal (DNI), and diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) as well as other meteorological dat...

Yang, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Sep 30, 2024
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Wind and Structural Loads on Heliostats

Wind loading is a main contributor to structural design costs of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) collectors, such as heliostats. These structures must resist the mechanical forces generated by turbulent wind. At the same time, the reflector surfaces must exhibit the necessary rigi...

Egerer, U. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Dec 24, 2025
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Modeled Utility-Scale Solar+Storage Operations 2020-2025

n this project, we model optimized hourly dispatch under energy, capacity, and ancillary-service market opportunities using a linear optimizer with perfect price and generation foresight and are sharing the hourly solar and storage generation profiles for our sample here using the...

Seel, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Oct 13, 2026
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Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC): Solar Resource & Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRMAP)

Located in Colorado, near Denver International Airport, Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC) is a private, member-based, 74-acre outdoor facility where the solar industry tests, validates, and demonstrates advanced solar technologies. SolarTAC was launched in 2008 by a ...

Andreas, A. and Wilcox, S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 19, 2016
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Solar Futures Study Databook

The Solar Futures Study explores pathways for solar energy to drive deep decarbonization of the U.S. electric grid and considers how further electrification could decarbonize the broader energy system. This workbook contains data behind most figures in the U.S. Department of ...

Margolis, R. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 27, 2021
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U.S. Counties FIPS Layer

This dataset, which represents county Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) codes for each county as a raster, is utilized by reVX to compute setbacks (distances). Setbacks can be computed either locally (on a per-county basis with specified distances or multipliers) or glo...

GDS, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Municipal Franchise Agreements and Energy Objectives

This data set includes franchise agreement-related information from 3,538 municipalities nationwide including data on franchise length, fees, agreement language, and energy objectives.

Cook, J. and Grunwald, B. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 04, 2019
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (May 2020)

This data set is no longer current – The most current data and all historical data sets can be found at https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/244 This database represents a list of community solar projects identified through various sources as of May 2020. The list has been revi...

Heeter, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 20, 2020
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PVWatts Calculator

Interactive web application that allows homeowners, installers and manufacturers to easily develop estimates of the performance of potential PV installations at specific locations. The calculator estimates the electricity production and energy value of a grid-connected roof or gro...

Support, P. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2022)

A machine readable collection of documented solar siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled based on a locality-by-locality review zoning ordinances after completing an initial review of scholarly l...

Lopez, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2022
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Quantifying and Monetizing Renewable Energy Resiliency

As part of the seed LDRD in 2017 we generated catastrophe models to look at the value of resiliency from an insurance perspective. These data sets reflect the inputs and outputs of that analysis.

Lisell, L. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 13, 2018
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2025 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

These data provide the 2025 update of the Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB). Starting in 2015 NREL has presented the ATB, consisting of detailed cost and performance data, both current and projected, for electricity generation and storage technologies. The ATB products ...

Mirletz, B. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Aug 26, 2026
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County-Level Hourly Renewable Capacity Factor Dataset for the ReEDS Model

This dataset contains hourly capacity factors for each renewable resource class and region (in this case, county). Technologies like large-scale utility PV (UPV), onshore wind, offshore wind, and concentrating solar power (CSP) are included. The dataset contains 7 years of hourly ...

Cole, W. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Aug 01, 2023
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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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PV Inverter Experimental Dataset Version 2 with 100 Percent Power

The increase in power electronic based generation sources require accurate modeling of inverters. Accurate modeling requires experimental data over wider operation range. We used 20 kW off-the-shelf grid following PV inverter in the experiments. We used controllable AC supply and ...

Prabakar, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 10, 2023
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (December 2022)

Chan, G. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 31, 2023
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