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Life Cycle Analysis Data and Results for Geothermal and Other Electricity Generation Technologies

Life cycle analysis (LCA) is an environmental assessment method that quantifies the environmental performance of a product system over its entire lifetime, from cradle to grave. Based on a set of relevant metrics, the method is aptly suited for comparing the environmental performa...

Sullivan, J. Argonne National Laboratory

Jun 04, 2013
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Water Use in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Geology of U.S. Stimulation Projects, Water Costs, and Alternative Water Use Policies

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), geothermal energy generation in the United States is projected to more than triple by 2040 (EIA 2013). This addition, which translates to more than 5 GW of generation capacity, is anti...

Harto, C. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Dec 16, 2014
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Tidal Energy Resource Characterization, Velocity and Turbulence Measurements, Processed Data, Cook Inlet, AK, 2021

This submission contains processed datasets from a long-term deployment of 3 moorings and a transect survey of the proposed tidal energy site off the East Forelands in Cook Inlet, AK. The long-term mooring datasets were created from 8 instruments mounted on a Terrasond High Ener...

McVey, J. and Kilcher, L. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aug 31, 2021
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Admiralty Inlet Hub-Height Turbulence Measurements from June 2012

This data is from measurements at Admiralty Head, in Admiralty Inlet. The measurements were made using an IMU equipped ADV mounted on a mooring, the 'Tidal Turbulence Mooring' or 'TTM'. The inertial measurements from the IMU allows for removal of mooring motion in post processing....

Kilcher, L. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 18, 2012
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Geothermal Water Use: Life Cycle Water Consumption, Water Resource Assessment, and Water Policy Framework

This report examines life cycle water consumption for various geothermal technologies to better understand factors that affect water consumption across the life cycle (e.g., power plant cooling, belowground fluid losses) and to assess the potential water challenges that future geo...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Jun 10, 2014
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Observation-Based Resource Assessment of Gulf Stream MHK

Multi-year measurements of current velocity, salinity, and temperature from fixed and vessel-mounted sensors quantify Gulf Stream (GS) MHK resource variability and inform development off Cape Hatteras, NC. Vessel transects across the GS demonstrate a jet-like velocity structure wi...

Muglia, M. et al North Carolina State University

Jan 01, 2020
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Tanana River Transects September 2010

As part of the initial site investigation for the Tanana River near Nenana, Alaska, a set of transects was completed on September 23rd, 2010. Similar to the one done on August 10th, 2010. This data was collected with a Rio Grande 1200 Teledyne ADCP the same year the initial bathym...

DUVOY, P. University of Alaska Fairbanks

Sep 23, 2010
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Tidal Current Cross-flow Turbine Wake ADV and PIV Data

Measurements in the wake of a high-solidity cross-flow turbine in a laboratory flume obtained using Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry and Particle Image Velocimetry for the purposes of characterizing the turbine wake and comparing the methods.

Polagye, B. University of Washington

Dec 06, 2016
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Next Generation RivGen Power System: Kvichak River, AK Overwinter Ice Study

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy Research Center was tasked with developing a real-time data telemetry / remote power generation system to monitor frazil ice conditions in the Kvichak River in support of the U.S. Department of Energy funded "Next...

Kasper, J. et al Igiugig Village Council

Oct 04, 2017
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TEAMER: Tidal Currents in San Juan Archipelago, Washington

Re-analyzed acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data originally collected by NOAA CO-OPS (Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services) and equivalent point data from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's FVCOM (Finite Volume Community Ocean Model) model of th...

Polagye, B. et al University of Washington

Dec 15, 2022
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Kvichak River RISEC Project Resource Reconnaissance and Physical Characterization, Igiugig, AK

During the summer and fall of 2011 TerraSond Ltd. (TerraSond) completed a bathymetric survey and hydrokinetic energy assessment of the Kvichak River at Igiugig, Alaska. The purpose of this work was to characterize the initial site conditions for the design and installation of a hy...

McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Oct 01, 2015
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Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017

This submission contains raw and processed datasets of water velocity and turbulence measurements from 3-day deployments of Deepwater Buoyancy StableMoor buoys carrying acoustic Doppler instrumentation at locations in Rosario Strait, Bellingham Channel, and Tacoma Narrows, WA in 2...

McVey, J. and Kilcher, L. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 24, 2017
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Wind for Schools Wind Turbine Data

This dataset is a series of wind turbine data collected for the Wind for Schools project. The U.S. Department of Energy funded the Wind for Schools project, which helped develop a future wind energy workforce by encouraging students at higher education institutions to join Wind Ap...

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

Jan 01, 2012
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TEAMER: Tidal Energy Resource Characterization and Model Validation via the Assessment of Distributed Current Measurements from microFloat Swarms, Data and Post-Access Report

This project evaluated how high-resolution, spatially distributed field data can be used to refine and validate site-scale hydrodynamic simulations of tidal channels. Use of such spatially-distributed field observations or site-scale hydrodynamic simulations will be needed for pro...

Harrison, T. et al University of Washington (NNMREC) Applied Physics Lab

Aug 20, 2020
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Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit

Wind resource data for North America was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interm) data set with an initial grid spacing of 54 km. Thre...

Maclaurin, G. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 26, 2014
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U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances

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 from several sources including, DOE's Wind Exchange Ordinance Database (Linked in the submission), National...

Lopez, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2022
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NREL GIS data: Bhutan Wind Power Density at 50m Above Ground Level

GIS data for Bhutan's Wind Power Density at 50m Above Ground Level. NREL developed estimates of Bhutans wind resources at a spatial resolution of 1 km^2 using NREL?s Wind Resource Assessment and Mapping System (WRAMS). Wind turbine output at a given site can be predicted using win...

Heimiller, D. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Wind Energy Resource Data

NREL's Geographic Information System (GIS) team offers both a national wind resource assessment of the United States and high-resolution wind data. The national wind resource assessment was created for the U.S. Department of Energy in 1986 by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory and i...

Webmaster, . and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Miller & Keith (2018) Wind Plant Data

Information on the 430 wind power plants used in 'Observation-based solar and wind power capacity factors and power densities’ by Miller & Keith (2018, Environ. Res. Lett. 13 104008), initially based on the Wind Power Plant locations released by the US Energy Information Adminis...

Miller, L. Harvard University

Nov 22, 2018
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Wind Turbine NREL GE 1.5MW SLE wind turbine Reviewed Data

**Overview** This dataset is intended to be a public resource for anyone conducting wind turbine noise research. The data in this set contain noise spectra and equivalent sound pressure levels at 11 measurement stations. The dataset also contains wind turbine operational data and...

Hamilton, N. Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO)

Nov 30, 2020
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Wind Resources in Alaska

Wind resource data for Alaska and southeast Alaska, both high resolution wind resource maps and gridded wind parameters. The two high resolution wind maps are comprised of a grid of cells each containing a single value of average wind speed (m/s) at a hub height of 30, 50, 70, and...

Hallett, K. and (AEDI), A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 30, 2006
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Wind Resources by Class and Country At 50m

These estimates are derived from a composite of high resolution wind resource datasets modeled for specific countries with low resolution data originating from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (United States) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (Unite...

Heimiller, D. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource

Annual average wind resource potential for Minnesota at a 50 meter height. This data set has been validated by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants. *Note:* This data is not suitable for micro-siting potential development projects. ###Original data Data from [...

Langle, N. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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North and South Dakota High Resolution 50m Wind Resource

Annual average wind resource potential for North and South Dakota at a 50 meter height in a GIS shapefile and links to US national wind resource information tools. This data set was produced and validated by NREL using their WRAM model.

Langle, N. and Lopez, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Nevada High Resolution Wind Resource

Annual average wind resource potential for the state of Nevada, United States at a 50 meter height. The wind power resource estimates were produced by TrueWind Solutions using their MesoMap system and historical weather data under contract to Wind Powering America/NREL. This m...