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Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data

This database represents a list of community solar projects, complete and pending, identified through various sources. The dataset is updated multiple times per year. The current version is the first file located below. Previous versions of the dataset published before June of 202...

Kannan, S. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Aug 30, 2024
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SplitSmart: An Open Dataset for Enabling Research in Energy-Efficient Ductless-Split Air Conditioner

SplitSmart provides a context-rich open dataset to facilitate research in energy efficient ductless-split cooling systems. The objective is to enable research advancements to make the ductless-split cooling systems (aka air conditioners) energy efficient and reduce the associated ...

Kaushik, K. and Naik, V. BITS Pilani Goa

Sep 21, 2023
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Ridgelines: Department of Interior Definition

This dataset represents ridgelines as defined by the Department of Interior (DOI): "Areas within 660 feet of the top of the ridgeline, where a ridgeline has at least 150 feet of vertical elevation gain with a minimum average slope of 10 percent between the ridgeline and the base."...

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

Jan 01, 2024
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Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time

The Department of Energy's Geothermal Technology Office (GTO) provides RD&D funding for geothermal exploration technologies with the goal of lowering the risks and costs of geothermal development and exploration. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with deve...

Jenne, S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 21, 2014
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Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections 2015 Edition

This is the fourth edition in an annual briefing prepared jointly by LBNL and NREL intended to provide a high-level overview of historical, recent, and projected near-term PV system pricing trends in the United States. The briefing draws on several ongoing research activities at t...

Feldman, D. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 12, 2016
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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025)

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 using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool...

Castelão, G. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Dec 30, 2025
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (June 2019)

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 June 2019. The list has been rev...

Heeter, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 28, 2019
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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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Topology-Based Machine-Learning for Modeling Power-System Responses to Contingencies

This is the companion dataset to the presentation NREL/PR-6A20-77485, which was presented at the 2020 Joint Statistical Meeting on August 3, 2020. Developed for the machine-learning predictive modeling of power-system responses to disruptions, it contains results of power-system c...

Bush, B. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 01, 2020
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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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Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data with Climate Change Impacts (Sup3rCC)

The Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data with Climate Change Impacts (Sup3rCC) data is a collection of 4km hourly wind, solar, temperature, humidity, and pressure fields for the contiguous United States under various climate change scenarios. Sup3rCC is downscaled ...

Buster, G. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Apr 19, 2023
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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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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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The Missing Correlation Between the Potential Rate Impacts of Rooftop Solar and the Timing of State Net Metering Policy Revisions

Data supporting the article “The Missing Correlation Between the Potential Rate Impacts of Rooftop Solar and the Timing of State Net Metering Policy Revisions” (https://www.nlr.gov/docs/fy25osti/93543.pdf). Residential solar photovoltaic (PV) output in most states i...

O'Shaughnessy, E. and Zuboy, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 15, 2025
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Thermal Cooling Water Datasets for Electric Sector Modeling

This spreadsheet contains data inputs associated with representations of water (i.e., use, supply, costs) for thermo-electric based production. Values in this spreadsheet have been used to support multiple transmission-related planning studies, using models such as Regional Energy...

Cohen, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 09, 2024
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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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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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United States Land-based Wind Representative Profiles 2007-2013 & 2015-2023

This data packet contains hourly generation profiles (representative profiles) for land-based wind across the contiguous United States. Hourly representative generation profiles are available for each reV supply curve site (~53,000 sites) which represents about 11.5 KM x 11.5 KM s...

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

Jun 16, 2025
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Photovoltaic Data Acquisition (PVDAQ) Public Datasets

The NREL PVDAQ is a large-scale time-series database containing system metadata and performance data from a variety of experimental PV sites and commercial public PV sites. The datasets are used to perform on-going performance and degradation analysis. Some of the sets can exhibit...

Deline, C. et al NREL

Dec 21, 2021
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (December 2023)

Xu, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 08, 2024
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2020 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

Starting in 2015 NREL has presented the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) in an Excel workbook that contains detailed cost and performance data, both current and projected, for renewable and conventional technologies. The workbook includes a spreadsheet for each technology. This up...

Akar, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 28, 2020
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2019 Annual Technology Baseline ATB Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

Starting in 2015 NREL has presented the Annual Technology Baseline ATB in an Excel workbook that contains detailed cost and performance data both current and projected for renewable and conventional technologies. The workbook includes a spreadsheet for each technology. This update...

Vimmerstedt, L. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 23, 2019
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NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL): Baseline Measurement System (BMS), Golden, Colorado

The Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL) was established at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) in 1981 to provide continuous measurements of the solar resources, outdoor calibrations of pyranometers and pyrheliometers, and to characterize commercially available i...

Stoffel, T. and Andreas, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 04, 2015
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2018 Industrial Energy Data Book

The Industrial Energy Data Book (IEDB) aggregates and synthesizes information on the trends in industrial energy use, energy prices, economic activity, and water use. The IEDB also estimates county-level industrial energy use and combustion energy use of large energy-using facilit...