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

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 2021 (Q1 2021). The methodology includes b...

Ramasamy and FeldmanNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 08, 2021
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CloudCV 10-Second Sky Images and Irradiance Dataset

The CloudCV 10-Second Sky Image and Irradiance Dataset contains sky images and irradiance measurements recorded every 10 seconds during daylight hours for 90 days between September 5th to December 3rd, 2019. The dataset was collected at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NR...

Perr-Sauer, . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 01, 2024
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2019 Distribution System Upgrade Unit Cost Database Current Version

IMPORTANT NOTE This is the current version of NREL's Distribution System Unit cost Database and should be considered the most up-to-date. Compared to the previous version https//data.nrel.gov/submissions/77 this database has additional data points and has been modified for improve...

HorowitzNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 02, 2019
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NYISO grid and time-series data in 2019

Folder NYGrid contains generators' data in New York State based on the installed capacity in 2019. Folder time_series are time-series data including correlated wind, solar, and load in 2019 with hourly resolution and 5-minuite resolution. Time-series data are generated based on hi...

Shu, H. and Mays, J. Cornell University

Sep 02, 2024
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Rooftop Energy Potential of Low Income Communities in America REPLICA

The Rooftop Energy Potential of Low Income Communities in America REPLICA data set provides estimates of residential rooftop solar technical potential at the tract-level with emphasis on estimates for Low and Moderate Income LMI populations. In addition to technical potential REPL...

Mooney and SigrinNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 03, 2018
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Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) Database

A database of quantum mechanical calculations on organic photovoltaic candidate molecules. Related Publications: Peter C. St. John, Caleb Phillips, Travis W. Kemper, A. Nolan Wilson, Michael F. Crowley, Mark R. Nimlos, Ross E. Larsen. (2018) Message-passing neural networks for...

St. JohnComputational Science

Apr 10, 2024
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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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U.S. PV-Suitable Rooftop Resources

This dataset contains zipcode resolution estimates of suitable area on small (1,000-5,000 m^2), medium (5,000-10,000 m^2) and large (>10,000 m^2) buildings' rooftops for PV deployment.

Phillips and MeliusNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 10, 2016
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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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Solar Home System Jharkhand India

Script in MATLAB and data sets in .csv for over 6 months of minute-by-minute resolution of household level energy consumption based off of three solar home systems with lights and a fan installed in Jharkhand, India. The files herein include original spreadsheets with the raw dat...

Mehra, V. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 09, 2016
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Solar Futures Study Databook

The Solar Futures Study explores pathways for solar energy to drive deep decarbonization of the U.S. electric grid and considers how further electrification could decarbonize the broader energy system. This workbook contains data behind most figures in the U.S. Department of En...

MargolisStrategic Energy Analysis Center

Oct 27, 2021
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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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Transient Data Library of Solar Grid Integrated Distributed System

This submission contains an open-source library of transient events in distributed system with high solar PV. The library includes the collected data, related documents and scripts for loading the data. The data library is built for transient event detection and machine learning b...

Kuruganti, T. and Dong, Y. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nov 10, 2022
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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 Potential in ...

Gagnon, . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 05, 2019
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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...

McMillanNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 27, 2019
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Typical Solar Years (TSYs) and Typical Wind Years (TWYs) for the Assessment of PV System and Wind Turbine Performance

This dataset comprises Typical Solar Years (TSYs) and Typical Wind Years (TWYs) for the efficient assessment of PV system and wind turbine performance for over 2,000 locations across the U.S. TSYs and TWYs are single synthetic years generated from the National Aeronautics and Spac...

Zeng, Z. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Jul 14, 2024
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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, . et al Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center

Sep 25, 2023
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System Advisor Model (SAM)

The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a performance and financial model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry. SAM makes performance predictions and cost of energy estimates for grid-connected power projects based on installation a...

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

Nov 25, 2014
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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, . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 28, 2020
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Quantifying and Monetizing Renewable Energy Resiliency

As part of the seed LDRD in 2017 we generated catastrophe models to look at the value of resiliency from an insurance perspective. These data sets reflect the inputs and outputs of that analysis.

Lisell, . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 13, 2018
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Long-run Marginal CO2 Emission Rates Workbooks for 2020 Standard Scenarios Cambium Data

This dataset has been superseded by a new set of workbooks that can be found here: https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/183 These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal CO2 emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. The LRMER is an estimate of the r...

Gagnon, . et al Energy Systems Integration

Aug 12, 2021
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Solar-to-Grid Public Data File for Utility-scale (UPV) and Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) Generation, Capacity Credit, and Value for 2012-2020

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) estimates hourly project-level generation data for utility-scale solar projects and hourly county-level generation data for residential and non-residential distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems in the seven organized wholesale m...

Seel, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Oct 01, 2021
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PV inverter experimental dataset version 2 with 100 percent power

The increase in power electronic based generation sources require accurate modeling of inverters. Accurate modeling requires experimental data over wider operation range. We used 20 kW off-the-shelf grid following PV inverter in the experiments. We used controllable AC supply and ...

Prabakar, . et al Power Systems Engineering

Nov 10, 2023
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Solar-to-Grid Public Data File for Utility-scale (UPV) and Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) Generation, Capacity Credit, and Value