Interregional Renewable Energy Zones
Interregional Renewable Energy Zones (IREZs) are a component of the National Transmission Planning Study (NTPS), which analyzes strategies for building out transmission infrastructure to support decarbonizing the electricity sector by 2035. In particular, IREZs envision long-distance transmission corridors for moving large amounts of low-cost renewable energy. An IREZ is a transmission collection point that is easily accessible to a very high volume of low-cost developable wind and solar energy potential. This dataset includes 155 IREZs identified across the continental United States where each IREZ is characterized by its primary and secondary resource.
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AB - Interregional Renewable Energy Zones (IREZs) are a component of the National Transmission Planning Study (NTPS), which analyzes strategies for building out transmission infrastructure to support decarbonizing the electricity sector by 2035. In particular, IREZs envision long-distance transmission corridors for moving large amounts of low-cost renewable energy. An IREZ is a transmission collection point that is easily accessible to a very high volume of low-cost developable wind and solar energy potential. This dataset includes 155 IREZs identified across the continental United States where each IREZ is characterized by its primary and secondary resource.
AU - Hurlbut, David
A2 - Harrison-Atlas, Dylan
A3 - Gu, Jianyu
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Renewable Energy Zones
KW - Transmission
LA - English
DA - 2022/09/02
PY - 2022
PB - Strategic Energy Analysis Center
T1 - Interregional Renewable Energy Zones
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8246
ER -
Hurlbut, David, et al. Interregional Renewable Energy Zones. Strategic Energy Analysis Center, 2 September, 2022, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194.
Hurlbut, D., Harrison-Atlas, D., & Gu, J. (2022). Interregional Renewable Energy Zones. [Data set]. NREL. Strategic Energy Analysis Center. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194
Hurlbut, David, Dylan Harrison-Atlas, and Jianyu Gu. Interregional Renewable Energy Zones. Strategic Energy Analysis Center, September, 2, 2022. Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8246,
title = {Interregional Renewable Energy Zones},
author = {Hurlbut, David and Harrison-Atlas, Dylan and Gu, Jianyu},
abstractNote = {Interregional Renewable Energy Zones (IREZs) are a component of the National Transmission Planning Study (NTPS), which analyzes strategies for building out transmission infrastructure to support decarbonizing the electricity sector by 2035. In particular, IREZs envision long-distance transmission corridors for moving large amounts of low-cost renewable energy. An IREZ is a transmission collection point that is easily accessible to a very high volume of low-cost developable wind and solar energy potential. This dataset includes 155 IREZs identified across the continental United States where each IREZ is characterized by its primary and secondary resource. },
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194},
year = {2022},
howpublished = {NREL, Strategic Energy Analysis Center, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194},
note = {Accessed: 2026-07-29}
}
Details
Data from Sep 2, 2022
Last updated Mar 12, 2026
Submitted Sep 2, 2022
Organization
Strategic Energy Analysis Center
Contact
David J. Hurlbut
Authors
Original Source
https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/194Research Areas
Keywords
Renewable Energy Zones, TransmissionDOE Project Details
Project Name National Transmission Planning Study
Project Number DE-AC36-08GO28308
