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 primary benefit of assessing technical potential is that it establishes an upper-boundary estimate of development potential. It is important to understand that there are multiple types of potential?resource, technical, economic, and market?each seen in *Figure 1* (below), with key assumptions.
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AB - 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 primary benefit of assessing technical potential is that it establishes an upper-boundary estimate of development potential. It is important to understand that there are multiple types of potential—resource, technical, economic, and market—each seen in *Figure 1* (below), with key assumptions.
AU - Lopez, Anthony
A2 - Laboratory, National Renewable Energy
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - CSP
KW - RE
KW - RE potential
KW - Renewable Energy
KW - US Energy
KW - US potential
KW - United States
KW - biopower
KW - energy
KW - geothermal
KW - hydropower
KW - hydrothermal
KW - potential
KW - potential energy
KW - renewable
KW - rooftop
KW - tech potential
KW - technical
KW - utility-scale
KW - water
KW - wind
LA - English
DA - 2014/11/25
PY - 2014
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/439
ER -
Lopez, Anthony, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 25 November, 2014, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/439.
Lopez, A., & Laboratory, N. (2014). United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/439
Lopez, Anthony and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, November, 25, 2014. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/439
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_439,
title = {United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential},
author = {Lopez, Anthony and Laboratory, National Renewable Energy},
abstractNote = {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 primary benefit of assessing technical potential is that it establishes an upper-boundary estimate of development potential. It is important to understand that there are multiple types of potential?resource, technical, economic, and market?each seen in *Figure 1* (below), with key assumptions. },
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/439},
year = {2014},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/439},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-30}
}
Details
Data from Nov 25, 2014
Last updated Nov 25, 2014
Submitted Nov 25, 2014
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Anthony Lopez
