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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 primary benefit of assessing technical potential...
Lopez, A. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
4 Resources
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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
3 Resources
0 Stars
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2016 Annual Technology Baseline

Current and future cost and performance data for electricity generating technologies, including both renewable and conventional technologies.
Hand. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sep 12, 2016
3 Resources
0 Stars
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Availability Estimates of Low-Cost, Dispatch-Constrained Electricity (LDE)

This dataset accompanies the report "Potential Availability of and Supply Curves for Low-Cost, Dispatch-Constrained Electricity", which provides initial estimates of the quantity and availability of the potential low-cost, dispatch-constrained electricity (LDE) resource in the Uni...
Ruth. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Feb 20, 2023
5 Resources
0 Stars
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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
5 Resources
0 Stars
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NREL GIS Data: Filtered Direct Normal Solar Resource for the Southwest United States (2 Percent Slope and Less)

Filtered (2% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared;...
Wood, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

NREL GIS Data: Filtered Direct Normal Solar Resource for the Southwest United States (3 Percent Slope and Less)

Filtered (3% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared;...
Wood, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

NREL GIS Data: Filtered Direct Normal Solar Resource for the Southwest United States (5 Percent Slope and Less)

Filtered (5% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared;...
Wood, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

NREL GIS Data: Filtered Direct Normal Solar Resource for the Southwest United States (1 Percent Slope and Less)

Filtered (1% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared;...
Wood, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

Long-Run Marginal Emission Rates for Electricity Workbooks for 2022 Cambium Data

These workbooks contain modeled estimates of long-run marginal emission rates (LRMER) for the contiguous United States. A LRMER is an estimate of the rate of emissions that would be either induced or avoided by a change in electric demand, taking into account how the change could ...
Gagnon. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jan 15, 2023
2 Resources
0 Stars
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NREL GIS Data: Filtered Direct Normal Solar Resource for the Southwest United States (4 Percent Slope and Less)

Filtered (4% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared;...
Wood, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

Renewable Electricity Futures Study Volume One

Renewable Electricity Futures Study Volume One. This is part of a series of four volumes describing exploring a high-penetration renewable electricity future for the United States of America. This data set is provides data for the entire volume one document and includes all data f...
Hand. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jan 19, 2016
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC): Solar Resource & Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRMAP)

Located in Colorado, near Denver International Airport, 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 public-private consortium, including M...
Andreas and WilcoxNational Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jan 19, 2016
1 Resources
0 Stars
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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2024 Q3 Update)

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 state in the United States...
Xu. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jun 27, 2024
1 Resources
0 Stars
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United States Weather Resource Data, compatible with System Advisor Model (SAM)

Weather resource data for the United States for use in the System Advisor Model (SAM). More information on the System Advisor Model is available at: https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sam/.
Aabakken, J. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
1 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

State Policies and Programs for Community Solar

The purpose of this dataset is to summarize current community solar policies and low-income stipulations by state in the United States. The dataset is updated multiple times per year. The current version is the first file located below. Previous versions of the dataset publish...
Xu. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oct 01, 2024
2 Resources
0 Stars
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Dataset for Evaluating the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Solar Photovoltaic Production

This dataset was used to support machine learning model development for wildfire impacts on utility-scale solar in the United States. The dataset includes information regarding energy generation, PM2.5, clearness index, temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and site size.
Gilletly, S. et al Sandia National Laboratories
May 15, 2023
3 Resources
0 Stars
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A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States

The dataset represents a digital surface models (DSM) representing surface heights on the Earth. The dataset covers the majority of the United States and is a derivative of USGS Lidar data collected mostly over the last decade. To the best of our knowledge it represents the only h...
Zisman, S. et al NREL
Jun 28, 2024
0 Resources
0 Stars
In progress

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
5 Resources
0 Stars
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Solar PV Transmission Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar energy setback requirements from transmission. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from transmission infrastructure that an energy project may be developed. As of April 2022, no ordinances were discovered for any counties. Such ordinances are ...
Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jan 01, 2024
3 Resources
0 Stars
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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
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Solar PV Railroad Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar energy setback requirements from railroads. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a railroad that an energy project may be developed. As of April 2022, no ordinances were discovered for any counties. Such ordinances are likely to arise as r...
Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jan 01, 2024
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

U.S. Counties FIPS Layer

This dataset, which represents county Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) codes for each county as a raster, is utilized by reVX to compute setbacks (distances). Setbacks can be computed either locally (on a per-county basis with specified distances or multipliers) or glo...
GDS, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jan 01, 2024
2 Resources
0 Stars
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Solar Energy: Bans or Moratoriums (2022)

This dataset identifies counties and municipalities that had a solar energy ban or moratorium as of April 2022. A TIF data file and a PNG map of the data are provided, showing areas where solar energy bans or moratoriums exist across the contiguous United States. For further deta...
Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jan 01, 2024
5 Resources
0 Stars
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