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Land use requirements for ground-mounted solar power facilities.

This dataset is part of a larger internal dataset at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that explores various characteristics of large solar electric (both PV and CSP) facilities around the United States. This dataset focuses on the land use characteristics for solar ...

Ong, S. and Laboratory, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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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
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Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) Setback (4-km)

The Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) system is a network of doppler radar operated jointly by the National Weather Service (NWS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force. This dataset represents 4-kilometer setback requirements typically applied to ...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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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
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Airport and Heliport Setbacks

This dataset represents a first-order quantification of airport and heliport setback requirements based on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 14 CFR Part 77.9. It defines the following FAA notice criteria that we use to create runway buffers. Runways longer than 3,200 feet ...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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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
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Wind Turbine Oil and Gas Pipeline Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind 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 to...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Wind Turbine Road Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from roads based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a road that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they exis...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Wind Turbine Railroad Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from railroad based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a railroad that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which th...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Solar PV Structure Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar energy setback requirements from structures based on county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a structure that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they ex...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Solar PV Water Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar energy setback requirements from bodies of water based on county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from water that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they exi...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Wind Turbine Transmission Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from transmission based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from transmission infrastructure that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Wind Turbine Structure Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from structures based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a structure that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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Solar PV Road Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends

This dataset represents solar energy setback requirements from roads based on county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from a road that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they existed. Two...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances

A machine readable collection of documented solar siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled based on a locality-by-locality review zoning ordinances after completing an initial review of scholarly l...

Lopez, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2022
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Wind Turbine Water Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends, 115 Hub Height 170 Rotor Diameter

This dataset represents wind energy setback requirements from water based on existing county ordinances as of April 2022. A setback requirement is a minimum distance from water that an energy project may be developed, and these varied widely across the counties in which they exist...

Geospatial Data Science, N. and Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 01, 2024
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U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances

A machine readable collection of documented wind siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled from several sources including, DOE's Wind Exchange Ordinance Database (Linked in the submission), National...

Lopez, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2022
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Land of Opportunity: Geothermal, Land-based Wind, and Solar PV Potential on Federal Lands

This data packet contains supply curves and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for geothermal, land-based wind, and solar PV across the contiguous United States with specific consideration on federal lands. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW) for eac...

Geospatial, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 01, 2025
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U.S. Wind and Solar PV Supply Curves with Future Land-use Change

This dataset provides future supply curves representing the total resource potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment in the conterminous United States after accounting for the impact of land-use and land-cover change (LULC). We use LULC projections from ...

Sergi, B. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Jan 10, 2024
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United States Land-based Wind Supply Curves 2023

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for land-based wind across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCOE...

GDS, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2023
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U.S. State Wind Resource Potential

Estimates for each of the 50 states and the entire United States showing the windy land area with a gross capacity factor (without losses) of 30% and greater at 80-m height above ground and the wind energy potential from development of the “available” windy land area after exc...

Wood, J. and America, W. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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United States Land-based Wind Supply Curves 2024

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for land-based wind across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCOE...

Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 01, 2025
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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Public Lands in geothermal potential area

The dataset is a GIS layer displaying BLM public lands that lie within an area that has geothermal potential. The GIS layer contains .SBX, .XML, .SHX, .DBF (.XLS), .PRJ, .SBN, and .SHP data. ### License Info Open information http://www.doi.gov/privacy.cfm

Hill, G. and (BLM), U. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 29, 2014
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Global CFDDA-based Onshore and Offshore Wind Potential Supply Curves by Country, Class, and Depth

This dataset contains global onshore and offshore wind supply curves based on a resource assessment performed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) based on the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Climate Four Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) mesosc...

Sullivan, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 25, 2014
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2024 County-Level Hourly Renewable Capacity Factor Dataset for the ReEDS Model

This dataset contains hourly capacity factors for each renewable resource class and region (in this case, county). Technologies like large-scale utility PV (UPV), onshore (land-based) wind, offshore wind, and concentrating solar power (CSP) are included. Hourly profiles are provid...

Sergi, B. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Mar 25, 2025
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