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Flexible Operation of Natural Gas Power Plants in Texas: Startup and Shutdown Durations and Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions

This dataset provides insights into historical flexible operation of natural gas power plants in Texas, with a focus on startup and shutdown events. The dataset includes tables summarizing startup and shutdown durations as well as nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission factors during these...

Li, Y. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Mar 26, 2026
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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, I. and McLaren, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 24, 2024
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A National Thermal Generator Performance Database

This submission contains cleaned and filtered data from the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Markets CAM database of thermal power plant operation and performance.

Rossol, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 05, 2018
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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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Q1 2023 U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks With Minimum Sustainable Price Analysis Data File

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) aims to accelerate the advancement and deployment of solar technology in support of an equitable transition to a decarbonized economy no later than 2050, starting with a decarbonized power sector by 20...

Ramasamy, V. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 25, 2023
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HERO WEC V1.0 2024 WEC-Sim Detailed Simulation Runs and Summary Data

This dataset includes results from simulations of NREL's hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter (HEREO WEC). Simulation runs include 135 wave cases that were based on the updated WEC-Sim model, which is linked below. The data represented in this repository i...

Panzarella, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 01, 2024
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End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock

The United States is embarking on an ambitious transition to a 100% clean energy economy by 2050, which will require improving the flexibility of electric grids. One way to achieve grid flexibility is to shed or shift demand to align with changing grid needs. To facilitate this, i...

Wilson, E. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Oct 14, 2021
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Geothermal Case Studies on OpenEI

This submission contains links to Geothermal Areas on OpenEI that were completed as part of an effort to gather clean, unbiased information on which to build geothermal drilling prospects. The specific areas that were part of this focused effort, or *case studies*, are linked ind...

Young, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2014
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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, B. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 22, 2017
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United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential

Renewable energy technical potential as defined in this report represents the achievable energy generation of a particular technology given system performance, topographic limitations, environmental, and land-use constraints. The data presented here provide renewable energy potent...

Lopez, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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The Urban Energy-Water Nexus: Utility-Level Water Flows and Embedded Energy

There are limited open source data available for determining water production/treatment and required energy for cities across the United States. This database represents the culmination of a two-year effort to obtain data from cities across the United States via open records reque...

Chini, C. and Stillwell, A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Feb 20, 2018
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Buildings Energy Data Book

The Building Energy Data Book (2011) is a compendium of data from a variety of data sets and includes statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption. Data tables contain statistics related to construction, building technologies, energy consumption, and buildi...

Mayernik, J. and EERE, O. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Jun 11, 2015
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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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NREL RSF Weather Data 2011

Modern buildings are complex energy systems that must be controlled for energy efficiency. The Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has hundreds of controllers computers that communicate with the building's various control systems to...

Sheppy, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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NREL RSF Energy Model 2011

Sheppy, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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City and County Energy Profiles

The City and County Energy Profiles lookup table provides modeled electricity and natural gas consumption and expenditures, on-road vehicle fuel consumption, vehicle miles traveled, and associated emissions for each U.S. city and county. Please note this data is modeled and more p...

Day, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 20, 2019
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Highly-resolved, Long-term Energy Demand Projections for the Contiguous United States: Data Compiled Using the Demand-side Grid (dsgrid) Toolkit for the Integrated Energy Futures Project

Modeled and compiled datasets describing electricity use by sector, and end use that are geographically specific, hourly, and projected out to 2050 for a single scenario. The current datasets reflect a scenario with a high degree of end-use electrification moderated by high assume...

Hale, E. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Feb 04, 2025
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Electric Technology Adoption and Energy Consumption

Scenario data from the Electrification Futures Study Scenarios of Electric Technology Adoption and Power Consumption for the United States report. Annual projections from 2017 to 2050 of electric technology adoption and energy consumption for five scenarios reference electrificati...

Mai, T. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 05, 2018
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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...

McMillan, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 14, 2019
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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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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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Energy Use and Water Consumption at University of Texas at Austin

Provides annual energy usage for years 1989 through 2022 for UT at Austin; specifically, electricity usage (kWh), natural gas usage (Mcf), associated costs. Also provides water consumption for 2005 through 2022. Steam, chilled water, and electricity are generated on the main camp...

Management, U. The University of Texas at Austin

Jul 29, 2014
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Electrification Futures Study Demand-side Scenarios report figure data

The file includes the data for figures in the Electrification Futures Study demand-side scenarios report. Additional information on the data can be found in the report.