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Wind and Structural Loads on Heliostats

Wind loading is a main contributor to structural design costs of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) collectors, such as heliostats. These structures must resist the mechanical forces generated by turbulent wind. At the same time, the reflector surfaces must exhibit the necessary rigi...
Egerer, U. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Dec 24, 2025
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Wind and Structural Loads on Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors at Nevada Solar One

Wind loading is a main contributor to structural design costs of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) collectors, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs. These structures must resist the mechanical forces generated by turbulent wind. At the same time, the reflector surfaces must exhi...
Egerer, U. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Oct 01, 2021
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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
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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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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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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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Ridgelines: Department of Interior Definition

This dataset represents ridgelines as defined by the Department of Interior (DOI): "Areas within 660 feet of the top of the ridgeline, where a ridgeline has at least 150 feet of vertical elevation gain with a minimum average slope of 10 percent between the ridgeline and the base."...
Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jan 01, 2024
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Bias Corrected Near-Surface Wind Data for Solar Field Siting

This dataset catalogs a long-term high-resolution data set characterizing the near-surface hourly wind speed variations at two solar sites in the Southwest U.S. This dataset demonstrates the potential for integrating improved near-surface wind data into CST and PV planning tools f...
Emes, M. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Jun 12, 2026
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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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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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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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Dataset on Bias Corrected Near-Surface Wind Speed Model

This dataset catalogs long-term high-resolution data sets characterizing hourly average variations of near-surface wind speed and atmospheric parameters in the Southwest U.S. This dataset demonstrates the potential for integrating improved near-surface wind data into CST and PV pl...
Emes, M. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Jun 02, 2026
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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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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2022)

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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United States Utility-Scale PV Supply Curves 2023

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCO...
GDS, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jun 30, 2023
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Q1-2024 Solar Cost Benchmarks

Each year, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and its national laboratory partners develop cost benchmarks for U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. These benchmarks track progress toward reducing solar costs and guide R&D prioritie...
Basore, P. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies
Dec 10, 2025
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United States Utility-Scale PV Supply Curves 2024

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCO...
Geospatial Data Science, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jan 01, 2025
12 Resources
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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025)

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 using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool...
Castelão, G. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Dec 30, 2025
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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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India Direct Normal & Global Horizontal Irradiance Solar Resources

GIS data for India's direct normal irradiance (DNI) and global horizontal irradiance (GHI). This dataset provides 10-kilometer (km) solar resource maps and data for India. The 10-km hourly solar resource data were developed using weather satellite (METEOSAT) measurements incorpora...
Lopez, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 25, 2014
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Block Scale Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for the City of Orlando

The html maps are provided as supplementary information for the publication titled Parcel Scale Assessment of Rooftop Solar Technical Potential (NREL/PR-7A40-80780). The maps contain information on rooftop solar technical potential at the block scale for the city of Orlando in Flo...
Prasanna, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nov 24, 2021
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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
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Opportunities for Solar for Industrial Process Heat in the United States

Figure data for report on opportunities for solar technologies to provide industrial process heat in the United States (NREL/TP-6A20-77760).
McMillan, C. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dec 24, 2020
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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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