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Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One

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This is part of a series of four volumes describing exploring a high-penetration renewable electricity future for the United States of America. This dataset is provides data for the entire volume one document and includes all data for the charts and graphs included in the document.

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For the Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory investigated the extent to which renewable energy supply could meet the electricity demands of the continental United States over the next several decades. This file contains the data for select figures in Volume 1 of the RE Futures report, which describes the approach taken by the study and the models used in it, along with its key results.

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Renewable Energy Futures Study - Volume 1 of 4. Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures. The Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) provides an analysis of the grid integration opportunities, challenges, and implications of high levels of renewable electricity generation for the U.S. electric system. The study is not a market or policy assessment. Rather, RE Futures examines renewable energy resources and many technical issues related to the operability of the U.S. electricity grid, and provides initial answers to important questions about the integration of high penetrations of renewable electricity technologies from a national perspective. DOI 10.2172/1219711

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AB  - This is part of a series of four volumes describing exploring a high-penetration renewable electricity future for the United States of America. This dataset is provides data for the entire volume one document and includes all data for the charts and graphs included in the document.
AU  - Hand, Maureen
A2  - Mai, Treui
A3  - Baldwin, Sam
A4  - Brinkman, Greg
A5  - Sandor, Debbie
A6  - Denholm, Paul
A7  - Heath, Garvin
A8  - Wiser, Ryan
DB  - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP  - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO  - 
KW  - renewable energy
KW  - electricity
KW  - high-penetration of renewables
KW  - electricity future
KW  - Futures
KW  - bioenergy
KW  - geothermal energy
KW  - CSP
KW  - concentrating solar power
KW  - energy analysis
KW  - water power
KW  - wind energy
KW  - photovoltaics
LA  - English
DA  - 2016/01/19
PY  - 2016
PB  - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Hand, Maureen, et al. Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 19 January, 2016, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/4.

Hand, M., Mai, T., Baldwin, S., Brinkman, G., Sandor, D., Denholm, P., Heath, G., & Wiser, R. (2016). Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One. [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/4

Hand, Maureen, Treui Mai, Sam Baldwin, Greg Brinkman, Debbie Sandor, Paul Denholm, Garvin Heath, and Ryan Wiser. Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, January, 19, 2016.  Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/4

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title = {Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One},
author = {Hand, Maureen and Mai, Treui and Baldwin, Sam and Brinkman, Greg and Sandor, Debbie and Denholm, Paul and Heath, Garvin and Wiser, Ryan},
abstractNote = {This is part of a series of four volumes describing exploring a high-penetration renewable electricity future for the United States of America. This dataset is provides data for the entire volume one document and includes all data for the charts and graphs included in the document.},
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/4},
year = {2016},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/4},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-08}
}

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Submitted Jan 19, 2016