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Solar Permitting, Inspection, and Interconnection Cycletimes and Requirements

Sixteen small-to-large residential PV installers submitted project-level data for analysis, which included timestamps for major components of the permitting, inspection, and interconnection process as well as contract and installation dates. NREL calculated median timelines for th...

Cook. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 31, 2021
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic BESS System Cost Benchmark Q1 2020 Report

NREL has been modeling U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) system costs since 2009. This year, our report benchmarks costs of U.S. PV for residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems, with and without storage, built in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1 2020). The methodology includes b...

Feldman. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 26, 2021
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks: Q1 2021

Ramasamy and FeldmanNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 08, 2021
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Dataset for Evaluation of Extreme Weather Impacts on Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Plant Performance in the United States

This dataset is a fusion of three data types (operations and maintenance tickets, weather data, and production data) that was used to support machine learning analysis and evaluation of drivers for low performance at photovoltaic (PV) sites during compound, extreme weather events....

Gunda, T. and Jackson, N. Sandia National Laboratories

Apr 01, 2021
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Understanding the Evolution of Customer Motivations and Adoption Barriers in Residential Solar Markets: Survey Data

This research focused on accelerating solar photovoltaic (PV) diffusion by collecting new market data and developing predictive modeling frameworks to test and refine understandings of household level motivations for adopting solar. Three different household-level surveys were...

Sigrin. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 22, 2017
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Bifacial PV Test-Bed Irradiance Measurements

Data for 2 front-facing and 4 rear-facing IMT irradiance sensors placed on a scaled-down setup that replicate a PV array in a highly-reflective rooftop. The test-bed consist of 3 rows of 20x2ft aluminum sheets (the “panels”), supported by a Unistrut structure, with 6 irra...

Ayala Pelaez. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 10, 2019
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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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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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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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Solar PV Oil and Gas Pipeline Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar 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 t...

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

Jan 01, 2024
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2023 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

These data provide the 2023 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 Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jun 09, 2023
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DEPRECATED. SEE UPDATE LINK BELOW. Distribution System Upgrade Unit Cost Database

REVISED 1/2/2019. SEE UPDATE LINK BELOW. This database contains unit cost information for different components that may be used to integrate distributed photovotaic D-PV systems onto distribution systems. Some of these upgrades and costs may also apply to integration of other dis...

HorowitzNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 20, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence for Robust Integration of AMI and Synchrophasor Data to Significantly Boost Solar Adoption

The overarching goal of the project is to create a highly efficient framework of machine learning (ML) methods that provide consistent and accurate real-time knowledge of system states from diverse advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) devices and phasor measurement units (PMUs) ...

Ayyanar, R. et al Arizona State University

Feb 01, 2025
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AquaPV: Foundational Analysis and Industry Guidance on Floating PV Results

This dataset contains results of the technical potential analysis of floating photovoltaics (FPV) on federally owned or permitted reservoirs in the United States. Estimates of the area of reservoirs that is technically feasible for FPV development are provided for reservoirs that...

Rosenlieb, E. et al National Renewable Energy Lab

Nov 08, 2024
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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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Mini-Split Heat Pump Evaluation and Zero Energy Ready Home Support

This project was created from a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Building America research team, IBACOS, Inc., and a production builder of high-performance homes called Imagine Homes, which is located in San Antonio, Texas-a hot-humid climate. The primar...

Rapport, A. and Herk, A. Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Photovoltaic Module Current-Voltage and Electroluminescence Image Data (PV-IV-EL)

This dataset consists of 613 sets of corresponding current-voltage trace (IV) flash test data and electroluminescence (EL) image data for commercial PV modules from the Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories. PV modules are from fielded systems ...

Byford, B. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Dec 15, 2015
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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. Contact: Meghan Mooney, Meghan.Mooney@nrel.gov The workbook contains data that underlies the 2016 technical report Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Technical Potentia...

Gagnon. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 05, 2019
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U.S. Electric Net Summer Capacity, 2004 2008

Provides total annual net electric summer capacity (in megawatts) for the United States, broken down by renewable energy source (e.g. biomass, solar thermal/pv) and the nonrenewable total.

Hallett, K. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Land of Opportunity: Geothermal, Land-based Wind, and Solar PV Potential on Federal Lands

This data packet contains supply curves and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for geothermal, land-based wind, and solar PV across the contiguous United States with specific consideration on federal lands. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW) for eac...

Geospatial, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 01, 2025
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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. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Bifacial Vertical Testbed and Ground Irradiance Data in Golden, Colorado

This data was collected for Tonita et al., “Vertical bifacial photovoltaic system model validation: study with field data, various orientations, and latitudes,” for validation of optical models for vertically-oriented photovoltaics under high albedo. Ground irradiance data for...

Ovaitt. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 06, 2024
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2021 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 ve...

Vimmerstedt, L. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jul 12, 2021
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2024 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

These data provide the 2024 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 ...