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U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025)

A machine readable collection of documented wind siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool,...

Pinchuk, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 12, 2025
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Data Sets for Evaluation of Building Fault Detection and Diagnostics Algorithms

This documentation and dataset can be used to test the performance of automated fault detection and diagnostics algorithms for buildings. The dataset was created by LBNL, PNNL, NREL, ORNL and ASHRAE RP-1312 (Drexel University). It includes data for air-handling units and rooftop u...

Lin, G. and Mitchell, R. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Feb 26, 2019
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Rooftop Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States

This data submission contains a workbook with data, and three sets of shapefiles that correspond to that data. The workbook contains data that underlies the 2016 technical report Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States: A Detailed Assessment. ...

Gagnon, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 05, 2019
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NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data)

The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, is a world-class research facility managed by NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy. NWTC researchers work with members of the wind energy industry to advance wind power...

Jager, D. and Andreas, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 17, 2014
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Exploring Assessment and Remediation of Residential Duct System Performance, Southeast Energy Use

The project took place in the Southeast from October 2024 through July 2026 and much of the data evaluated come from the Tennessee Valley Authority service territory. The goal of this work was to addresses the problem that, when ducts are leaky, undersized, poorly insulated, or ot...

Gigley, G. Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance

Jun 12, 2026
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ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 1

The ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 1, from 2018 to 2019, focused on the basic Security Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow problem (SCOPF) for a single time period. The Challenge utilized sets of unique datasets generated by the ARPA-E GRID DATA program. Each da...

Elbert, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aug 05, 2024
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Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC) Green Homes

With the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building America Program, Home Innovation Research Labs partnered with Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC) to build a third new construction test house (NCTH) in Apprentice Green, a community next to the sch...

Kochkin, V. et al Home Innovation Research Labs National Association of Home Builders

Apr 27, 2016
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Wind Turbine Water Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from water based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from water that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they exist...

Geospatial Data Science, N. and Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3

Synthetic Input Data and Team Results for the GO Competition Challenge 3 for Events 1 4 and the Sandbox, along with problem and format descriptions and code to validate data and solutions, are available here. Data for industry scenarios will not be made public. The Grid Optimizat...

Elbert, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

May 02, 2024
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Mechanical Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Recently Constructed U.S. Homes in Marine and Cold-Dry Climates Data from Building America Project

Data were collected to characterize whole-house mechanical ventilation (WHMV) and indoor air quality (IAQ) in 55 homes in the Marine climate of Oregon and Cold-Dry climate of Colorado in the U.S. Sixteen homes were monitored for two weeks, with and without WHMV operating. Ventilat...

Zhao, H. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mar 22, 2023
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Wind Energy: Bans or Moratoriums (2022)

This dataset identifies counties and municipalities that had a wind energy ban or moratorium as of April 2022. A TIF data file and a PNG map of the data are provided, showing areas where wind energy bans or moratoriums exist across the contiguous United States. For further detail...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Block Scale Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for the City of Orlando

The html maps are provided as supplementary information for the publication titled Parcel Scale Assessment of Rooftop Solar Technical Potential (NREL/PR-7A40-80780). The maps contain information on rooftop solar technical potential at the block scale for the city of Orlando in Flo...

Prasanna, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 24, 2021
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Demand-Side Grid (dsgrid) Building Load Profiles using ResStock and ComStock v2021

This dataset contains simulated hourly end use load profiles of the residential and commercial building sector in the contiguous United States for every other year from 2010 to 2050. Data were produced in 2021 using ResStock and ComStock, which are building stock energy models of ...

Liu, L. et al National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)

Apr 12, 2021
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Equitable Energy Investment Prioritization Data Set

This data set compiles metrics related to energy justice, environmental justice, and renewable energy (RE) deployment potential. The metrics, including energy burden, sociodemographic characteristics, environmental hazard exposure, and the technical generation potential and leveli...

Day, M. and Ross, L. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 15, 2021
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Near-Surface Observed Wind Speed Benchmark Dataset

Accurate wind forecasts are essential for operational decision-making and public safety, yet forecasts tend to miss near-surface high wind speeds in complex terrain. In response, recent advances in machine learning (ML) weather prediction methods have demonstrated the ability to i...

Bazlen, K. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Jul 16, 2026
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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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The Foundational Industry Energy Dataset: Unit-level Characterization and Derived Energy Estimates for Industrial Facilities in 2017

The Foundational Industry Energy Dataset (FIED) addresses several of the areas of growing disconnect between the demands of industrial energy analysis and the state of industrial energy data by providing unit-level characterization by facility. Each facility is identified by a uni...

McMillan, C. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jul 01, 2024
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Behind-the-Meter Storage Policy Stack

A variety of studies and disparate data sets track state energy storage policies, but these datasets do not cover all BTM-related storage policy. Moreover, these databases do not align policies with the policy stacking framework. Thus, it is unclear which BTM storage policies are ...

Cook, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 09, 2022
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Retrofitting a 1960s Split-Level Cold-Climate Home

The U.S. Department of Energy Building America research team Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) partnered with Preferred Builders, a previous CARB partner and builder of the Performance House (DOE 2013) and the owners of a 1960s split-level home in Westport, Conn...

Puttagunta, S. Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings

Apr 27, 2016
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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2024 Q2 Update)

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/249 The purpose of this dataset is to summarize current community solar policies and low-income stipulations by the state in the United S...

Xu, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 03, 2024
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TP84227_FS83049_OPData

The data set represents the data used for the analysis of operational carbon emissions for a carbon case study of a typical production builder's home in two common climate zones, Climate Zone 2 (Warm) and CZ 5 (Cold). A data set for embodied carbon emissions analysis for the sam...

Rapport, A. Building Technologies and Science Center

Jan 17, 2023
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TP84227_FS83049_ECData

The data set represents the data used for the analysis of embodied carbon emissions for a carbon case study of a typical production builder's home in two common climate zones, Climate Zone 2 (Warm) and CZ 5 (Cold). A data set for operational carbon emissions analysis for the same...

Rapport, A. Building Technologies and Science Center

Jan 17, 2023
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Demand-Side Grid Model (dsgrid) Data from the Electrification Futures Project (EFS)

This data set contains the full-resolution and state-level data described in the linked technical report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/71492.pdf). It can be accessed with the NREL-dsgrid-legacy-efs-api, available on GitHub at https://github.com/dsgrid/dsgrid-legacy-efs-api a...

Hale, E. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 08, 2018
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The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home Old Greenwich

Working with builder partners on test homes allows for vetting of whole-house building strategies to eliminate any potential unintended consequences prior to implementing these solution packages on a production scale. To support this research, the Consortium for Advanced Residenti...

Williamson, J. et al Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings

Apr 27, 2016
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Airport and Heliport Setbacks

This dataset represents a first-order quantification of airport and heliport setback requirements based on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 14 CFR Part 77.9. It defines the following FAA notice criteria that we use to create runway buffers. Runways longer than 3,200 feet ...