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Transparent Cost Database: Generation, BioFuels, Vehicle Levelized Costs

For emerging energy technologies, a variety of cost and performance numbers are cited in presentations and reports for present-day characteristics and potential improvements. Amid a variety of sources and methods for these data, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...

Staff, T. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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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
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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 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 25, 2023
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2017 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB): Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies

Each year since 2015, NREL has presented Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) in a spreadsheet that contains detailed cost and performance data (both current and projected) for renewable and conventional technologies. The spreadsheet includes a workbook for each technology. This sprea...

Hand. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 21, 2017
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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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FERC Form 1 Electric Utility Cost, Energy Sales, Peak Demand, and Customer Count Data 1994-2019

This spreadsheet contains information reported by over 200 investor-owned utilities to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the annual filing FERC Form 1 for the years 1994-2019. It contains 1) annual capital costs for new transmission, distribution, and administrative infr...

Fares, R. and King, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 04, 2017
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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...

Gagnon. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 12, 2021
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Annual Federal Government Energy Use and Costs by Agency, 1975 2012

Data set presents historical energy use in native units and billion site-delivered Btu and costs (in 2012 dollars) aggregated at the top-tier Federal agency level for the fiscal years 1975 through 2012. Data is grouped into two main end-use sectors, facility and mobility energy u...

Tremper, C. and (EERE), O. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Nov 25, 2014
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Bias Corrected NOAA HRRR Wind Resource Data for Grid Integration Applications

To address the need for regularly updated wind resource data, NREL has processed the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) outputs for use in grid integration modeling. The HRRR is an hourly-updated operational forecast product produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...

Buster, G. et al National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)

Oct 15, 2024
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Closed Loop Pumped Storage Hydropower Resource Assessment of the United States

The data includes a geospatial and spreadsheet representation of a resource analysis for closed loop pumped storage systems across the Continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The data includes energy storage potential, water volume, distance from source to stor...

Rosenlieb, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 05, 2022
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Workbooks for Cambium 2024 Data

These workbooks contain a subset of cost and emissions data from the 2024 Cambium datasets, with levelization calculations to assist users in translating Cambium’s year-over-year values to a representative value for a user-specified project timeline. These workbooks provide...

GagnonNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 22, 2025
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Energy and Economic Assessment of a Stirling Engine Powered by Solar Energy in Bolivia

The Bolivian governments concerns that are related to reducing the consumption of diesel fuel, which is imported, subsidized, and provided to isolated electric plants in rural communities, have led to the implementation of hybrid power systems. The data in this submissions was cre...

Jimenez, P. San Simon University

Dec 10, 2021
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Data Files for “The 2030 National Charging Network: Estimating U.S. Light-Duty Demand for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure"

This data set includes modeling results from “The 2030 National Charging Network: Estimating U.S. Light-Duty Demand for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure” including region-specific [i.e., national, state, and core-based statistical area (CBSA)—cities/towns] electric v...

Wood and BorlaugNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 26, 2023
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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
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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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Alaskas Rural Power Systems Upgrade Program Project Locations

This data contains locations of the projects maintained by the Rural Power Systems Upgrade Program. Over 350 locations are included in the dataset, including those projects in remote villages and communities throughout the state of Alaska. The location data provides a means by whi...

Hallett, K. and (AEDI), A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 30, 2009
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NREL Price Series Developed for the ARPA-E FLECCS Program

The price data for four regions (CAISO, ERCOT, MISO-W, and PJM-W) are developed using the ReEDS to PLEXOS conversion as described in (Gagnon et al. 2020). The reference ReEDS case chosen is based on the 2020 Standard Scenario Mid-case, which uses the 2020 ReEDS model version (Cole...

Cohen and DurvasuluNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 23, 2021
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SolarPACES Model Intercomparison and Case Studies Concerning Hybrid CSP-TES-PV-Battery Systems

This data is the result of an international collaboration funded by SolarPACES within the Task I group. The funded project was entitled "Model Intercomparison and Case Studies Concerning Hybrid CSP-TES/PV-Battery Systems" and was carried out from February 2023 to September 2024. I...

Hamilton, W. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Dec 02, 2024
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Demand-Side Grid Model (dsgrid) Data from the Electrification Futures Project (EFS)

This data set contains the full-resolution and state-level data described in the linked technical report (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/71492.pdf). It can be accessed with the NREL-dsgrid-legacy-efs-api, available on GitHub at https://github.com/dsgrid/dsgrid-legacy-efs-api a...

Hale, E. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 08, 2018
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Thermal Cooling Water Datasets for Electric Sector Modeling

This spreadsheet contains data inputs associated with representations of water (i.e., use, supply, costs) for thermo-electric based production. Values in this spreadsheet have been used to support multiple transmission-related planning studies, using models such as Regional Energy...

Cohen. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 09, 2024
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Visualization Encoding Experiments for Power Systems Analysis

Through a human factors study, we evaluated the use of contour and glyph visualizations for two modern power systems models: an urban distribution model and a large-scale transmission model. This dataset provides model data and scripts for recreating the power flow data and visual...

Gruchalla. . et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 26, 2022
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Residential Loads May 2, 2016

Power measurements for various residential appliances in the System Performance Lab (SPL) in the Energy System Integration Facility (ESIF). This data set was collected as part of a project evaluating a new type of power meter that can reduce the cost of submetering many circuits i...

SparnNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 14, 2016
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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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City and County Vehicle Inventories

This light-duty vehicle inventory dataset provides information on vehicle registrations by vehicle type (car vs. truck), fuel type, and model year showing the changes in adoption trends over time and average fuel economies. This data is part of a suite of state and local energy ...

Day, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 21, 2019
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Super-Resolution for Renewable Resource Data and Urban Heat Islands (Sup3rUHI)

Super-Resolution for Renewable Resource Data and Urban Heat Islands (Sup3rUHI) introduces machine learning methods to incorporate high-resolution Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects into low-resolution historical reanalysis and future climate model datasets. The dataset includes model...