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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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Distributed PV Permitting Survey Responses

In 2019, NREL, in partnership with the Solar Energy Industries Association, developed a survey for PV installers on their experiences with delays and cancelations in the adoption process, including the impacts of permitting and interconnection. This dataset includes the anonymized...
Cook, J. and Cruce, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mar 31, 2021
1 Resources
0 Stars
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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
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Residential Solar Permitting Jurisdiction Survey Responses

This is the cleaned dataset of jurisdiction survey responses associated with the NLR report Residential Solar Adoption Timelines and Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic (published September 2022). NLR conducted this survey of jurisdictions in August and September 2021, asking about...
Cruce, J. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies
Aug 19, 2026
1 Resources
0 Stars
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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
4 Resources
0 Stars
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Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data with Climate Change Impacts (Sup3rCC)

The Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data with Climate Change Impacts (Sup3rCC) data is a collection of 4km hourly wind, solar, temperature, humidity, and pressure fields for the contiguous United States under various climate change scenarios. Sup3rCC is downscaled ...
Buster, G. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Apr 19, 2023
7 Resources
2 Stars
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National Occupational Estimates 2023

This dataset provides occupational staffing patterns and proportional estimates across sub-sectors tracked by the US Energy Employment Report (USEER), including Advanced Natural Gas, Bioenergy, CHP, Coal, Geothermal, Land-Based Wind, Low-Impact Hydro, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil, Of...
Wegner Guilfoyle, K. National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Apr 13, 2026
2 Resources
0 Stars
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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
13 Resources
0 Stars
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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
5 Resources
1 Stars
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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
5 Resources
0 Stars
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Performance Analysis of a Stirling Engine Hybrid Power System

This project presents the performance analysis of a photovoltaic (PV)/Stirling battery system in terms of energy efficiency, economic feasibility, and environmental sustainability. The analysis includes the dynamic start-up and cooling phases of the system, and then compares its p...
Zabalaga, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dec 20, 2019
7 Resources
0 Stars
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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
8 Resources
3 Stars
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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
4 Resources
1 Stars
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Solar-to-Grid Public Data File for Utility-scale (UPV) and Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) Generation, Capacity Credit, and Value

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
Sep 30, 2020
5 Resources
0 Stars
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PVade Wind-Loading Structural Response Dataset for Solar Photovoltaic Arrays

This dataset contains approximately 3,800 coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations of single-axis tracked photovoltaic (PV) arrays, computed using PVade (PV Aerodynamic Design Engineering), an open-source tool for simulating the wind-driven motion and deformation of P...
Safi, M. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Sep 15, 2026
1 Resources
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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 1998-2025. The NSRDB is updated annually and provides foundational information t...
Sengupta, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sep 28, 2018
7 Resources
2 Stars
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Data for "Arsenic Activation and Compensation in Single Crystal CdTe Bilayers"

Figure files and raw data associated with manuscript entitled "Arsenic activation and compensation in single crystal CdTe bilayers"
Mathew, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dec 23, 2024
37 Resources
0 Stars
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Sample IEEE123 Bus system for OEDI SI

Time series load and PV data from an IEEE123 bus system. An example electrical system, named the OEDI SI feeder, is used to test the workflow in a co-simulation. The system used is the IEEE123 test system, which is a well studied test system (see link below to IEEE PES Test Feeder...
Elgindy, T. and Balasubramaniam, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sep 01, 2022
4 Resources
0 Stars
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Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks

The U.S. Department of Energy’s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel...
Basore, P. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies
Dec 22, 2025
7 Resources
1 Stars
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Outdoor Ultraviolet (UV) Dose Maps and Site Data for Accelerated UV Testing of Photovoltaic Devices

This dataset holds the annual outdoor ultraviolet (UV) doses behind the article "UV Exposure and Durability of Emerging Photovoltaics: Quantifying and Reporting Outdoor UV Doses" by Robert Witteck, Duong Nguyen Minh, Michael Owen-Bellini, Joseph M. Luther, and Laura T. Schelhas (N...
Witteck, R. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies
Oct 13, 2026
6 Resources
0 Stars
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National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP+) Resource List

NLR compiles and makes quarterly updates to this dataset of publications related to expanding access to solar through its support for the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP+). The purpose of the list is to help NCSP+ partners and others to find relevant resources on commun...
Burton, R. National Laboratory of the Rockies
Oct 27, 2022
1 Resources
0 Stars
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Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (RSR) Data for Los Angeles, California

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory collaborates with the solar industry to establish high quality solar and meteorological measurements. This Solar Resource and Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRMAP) provides high quality measurements to supp...
Stoffel, T. and Andreas, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dec 17, 2014
2 Resources
0 Stars
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Hourly Electricity Demand Profiles for Each County in the Contiguous United States

This dataset provides estimated hourly electricity demand for each county in the contiguous United States from 2016-2023. The demand profiles represent the sum of two components: (1) Weighted averages of reported hourly demand profiles for North American Electric Reliability Corpo...
Obika, K. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Nov 05, 2025
2 Resources
0 Stars
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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
5 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
3 Resources
0 Stars
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