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SMART-DS Synthetic Electrical Network Data OpenDSS Models for SFO, GSO, and AUS

The SMART-DS datasets (Synthetic Models for Advanced, Realistic Testing: Distribution systems and Scenarios) are realistic large-scale U.S. electrical distribution models for testing advanced grid algorithms and technology analysis. This document provides a user guide for the data...

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

Dec 18, 2020
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Puerto Rico Solar-for-All: LMI PV Rooftop Technical Potential and Solar Savings Potential

The Puerto Rico Solar-For-All dataset provides Census Tract level estimates of residential low-to-moderate income (LMI) PV rooftop technical potential as well as solar electric bill savings potential for LMI communities at the municipality level. Each dataset is broken out by inco...

Mooney. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 28, 2020
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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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Rooftop Solar Challenge (RSC) Database

The Solar Metrics Online Portal collects data from teams participating in the Rooftop Solar Challenge (RSC II). The data is collected from each jurisdiction on a team over three time periods (past, present, and future). The data collected is used to calculate a team's market matur...

Huneycutt, J. and Laboratory, N. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Nov 25, 2014
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PV Rooftop Database

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Photovoltaic (PV) Rooftop Database (PVRDB) is a lidar-derived, geospatially-resolved dataset of suitable roof surfaces and their PV technical potential for 128 metropolitan regions in the United States. The PVRDB data are organized...

Mooney, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2016
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Hathaway Solar Patriot house

This Dataset contains field research raw data, analysis spreadsheet, photos, and final report from the Hathaway Solar Patriot House Building America Case Study project.

Norton, P. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 09, 2016
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Wind Turbine Oil and Gas Pipeline Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from oil and gas pipelines. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a pipeline that an energy project may be developed. As of April 2022, no ordinances were discovered for any counties. Such ordinances are likely to...

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

Jan 01, 2024
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Utility Rate Database (URDB)

The Utility Rate Database (URDB) provides rate structure information for over 3,700 U.S. utilities. Rates are checked and updated annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Each record indicates the date of the last update. The URDB allows you to search for your...

Zimny-Schmitt, D. and Huggins, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jun 01, 2010
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Community Solar Policy Screening Workbook for Multifamily Affordable Housing Building Portfolios

This workbook provides a framework to help Multifamily Affordable Housing (MFAH) housing providers evaluate state-level policy landscapes as they relate to MFAH community solar development. By exploring which programs and policies aid in the technical and economic feasibility of M...

Burton and OrcuttNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 27, 2022
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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 and McLarenNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 24, 2024
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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2022)

This data set is no longer current – The most current data and all historical data sets can be found at https://data.nrel.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. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 05, 2023
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Hathaway Solar Patriot House

The Hathaway Solar Patriot House was a Building America field research case study from 2001 to 2004. A report on this project is available in this record or from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37731.pdf

Norton, P. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 10, 2016
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Solar Photovoltaic Curtailment Estimates 2018

This databook provides certain data behind figures and tables found in the NREL report "Solar PV Curtailment in Changing Grid and Technological Contexts." These data reflect estimates based on the best available data for solar photovoltaic curtailment.

O'Shaughnessy. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 21, 2019
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India Direct Normal & Global Horizontal Irradiance Solar Resources

GIS data for India's direct normal irradiance (DNI) and global horizontal irradiance. Provides 10-kilometer (km) solar resource maps and data for India. The 10-km hourly solar resource data were developed using weather satellite (METEOSAT) measurements incorporated into a site-...

LopezNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 11, 2016
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Distributed PV Permitting Survey Responses

In 2019, NREL, in partnership with the Solar Energy Industries Association, developed a survey for PV installers on their experiences with delays and cancelations in the adoption process, including the impacts of permitting and interconnection. This dataset includes the anonymized...

Cook and CruceNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 31, 2021
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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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Q1-2022 U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks With Minimum Sustainable Price Analysis Data File

RamasamyIntegrated Applications Center

Nov 07, 2022
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Community Solar Resource Database

NREL has updated a database of publicly available resources related to community solar in the U.S., including journal articles, reports, fact sheets, slides, videos, datasets, webinars, and other formats. This effort aims to compile resources that would benefit all partners intere...

Burton and XuNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 27, 2022
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Bhutan Solar Resources

GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans...

Heimiller, D. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Energy and Economic Assessment of a Stirling Engine Powered by Solar Energy in Bolivia

The Bolivian governments concerns that are related to reducing the consumption of diesel fuel, which is imported, subsidized, and provided to isolated electric plants in rural communities, have led to the implementation of hybrid power systems. The data in this submissions was cre...

Jimenez, P. San Simon University

Dec 10, 2021
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018

NREL has been modeling U.S. photovoltaic PV system costs since 2009. The U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System CostBenchmark Q1 2018 report benchmarks costs of U.S. solar PV for residential commercial and utility-scale systems built in the first quarter of 2018 Q1 2018. THE methodology i...

Fu. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 15, 2019
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (December 2022)

This data set is no longer current – The most current data and all historical data sets can be found at https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/244 This database represents a list of community solar projects identified through various sources as of Dec 2022. In addition, this data...

Chan. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 31, 2023
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Solar Radiation Monitoring of Bluefield State College: Bluefield, West Virginia (Data)

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Solar Radiation Monitoring Network operated from July 1985 through December 1996. Funded by DOE, the six-station network provided 5-minute averaged measurements of direct normal, global, and diffuse horizontal solar irradianc...

Stoffel and AndreasNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 17, 2014
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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2024 Q2 Update)