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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
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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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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2022)

This data set is no longer current – The most current data and all historical data sets can be found at https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/249 The purpose of this dataset is to summarize current community solar policies and low-income stipulations by the state in the United S...

Xu, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 05, 2023
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DEPRECATED Sharing the Sun Community Solar Project Data (December 2021)

This data set is no longer current – The most current data and all historical data sets can be found at https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/244 This database represents a list of community solar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 Dec 2021. The list has been revi...

Chan, G. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Feb 09, 2022
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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
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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. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Bhutan Solar Resources

GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans...

Heimiller, D. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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Modeled Utility-Scale Solar+Storage Operations 2020-2024

In this project, we model optimized hourly dispatch under energy, capacity, and ancillary-service market opportunities using a linear optimizer with perfect price and generation foresight and are sharing the hourly solar and storage generation profiles for our sample here using th...

Seel, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

May 12, 2026
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Renewable Electricity Procurement Options Data

The Procurement Analysis Tool (PAT) was developed at NREL to help organizations explore renewable energy options that align with their goals. Users input facility data and answer goal-oriented questions. PAT analyzes this information to identify potential wind, solar, or storage r...

Day, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 12, 2019
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Observations and Lessons Learned in Residential Roofing Integrated Photovoltaics

The data file includes field observations of residential roofing integrated photovoltaics installation that happened between July 2021 and June 2022 in California. There are 21 observations 2 in the re-roofing category and 19 in the new construction category. The file include...

Cook, J. and Jena, S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 15, 2023
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DEPRECATED State Policies and Programs for Community Solar (2024 Q3 Update)

Xu, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 27, 2024
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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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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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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 dist...

Horowitz, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 20, 2017
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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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Distributed Generation Market Demand (dGen) model

The Distributed Generation Market Demand (dGen) model simulates customer adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) for residential, commercial, and industrial entities in the United States or other countries through 2050. The dGen model can be used for identifying the sector...

Stanley, T. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Oct 16, 2020
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Maximum demand charge rates for commercial and industrial electricity tariffs in the United States

NREL has assembled a list of U.S. retail electricity tariffs and their associated demand charge rates for the Commercial and Industrial sectors. The data was obtained from the Utility Rate Database. Keep the following information in mind when interpreting the data: (1) These data ...

McLaren, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 19, 2017
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U.S. Agrivoltaics Irradiance Database

This is a foundational data set for research and deployment of agrivoltaics, which is the co-location of agriculture and solar power plants on the same land. This irradiance and shading dataset can be utilized to determine the suitability of agrivoltaics configurations for a given...

Ovaitt, S. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

Nov 05, 2025
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Hathaway Solar Patriot House

The Hathaway Solar Patriot House was a Building America field research case study from 2001 to 2004. A report on this project is available in this record or from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37731.pdf

Norton, P. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 10, 2016
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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.nlr.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 ...

Gagnon, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 12, 2021
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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 dataset is provides data for the entire volume one document and includes all data for the charts and graphs included in the document.

Hand, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 19, 2016
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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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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, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 06, 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, V. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 25, 2023
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National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)

The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) is a serially complete collection of meteorological and solar irradiance data sets for the United States and a growing list of international locations for 1998-2023. The NSRDB is updated annually and provides foundational information t...

Sengupta, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 28, 2018
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