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Electricity Data and Statistics Application Programming Interface (API)
Department of Energy —
Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on electricity generation, consumption, retail sales, price, revenue from retail sales, useful thermal output, fossil fuel stocks,... -
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Photovoltaic Module Current-Voltage and Electroluminescence Image Data (PV-IV-EL)
Department of Energy —
This dataset consists of 613 sets of corresponding current-voltage trace (IV) flash test data and electroluminescence (EL) image data for commercial PV modules from... -
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High-Resolution Floating Solar PV Data
Department of Energy —
This dataset contains over two years of 1-minute resolution data collected from four floating solar sites, as well as data from a land-based PV system co-located with... -
Federal
Utility-Scale Solar, 2025 Edition: Analysis of Empirical Plant-level Data from U.S. Ground-mounted PV, PV+battery, and CSP Plants (exceeding 5 MWAC)
Department of Energy —
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory compiled and synthesized empirical data on the U.S. utility-scale solar sector. Utility-scale solar is defined here to include... -
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SMART-DS Synthetic Electrical Network Data OpenDSS Models for SFO, GSO, and AUS
Department of Energy —
The SMART-DS datasets (Synthetic Models for Advanced, Realistic Testing: Distribution systems and Scenarios) are realistic large-scale U.S. electrical distribution... -
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2024 County-Level Hourly Renewable Capacity Factor Dataset for the ReEDS Model
Department of Energy —
This dataset contains hourly capacity factors for each renewable resource class and region (in this case, county). Technologies like large-scale utility PV (UPV),... -
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Maximum demand charge rates for commercial and industrial electricity tariffs in the United States
Department of Energy —
NREL has assembled a list of U.S. retail electricity tariffs and their associated demand charge rates for the Commercial and Industrial sectors. The data was obtained... -
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United States Utility-Scale PV Supply Curves 2024
Department of Energy —
This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States.... -
Federal
Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition: Analysis of Empirical Plant-level Data from U.S. Ground-mounted PV, PV+battery, and CSP Plants (exceeding 5 MWAC)
Department of Energy —
Berkeley Labs "Utility-Scale Solar", 2024 Edition presents analysis of empirical plant-level data from the U.S. fleet of ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV), PV+battery,... -
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United State Utility-Scale Solar PV Representative Profiles 1998-2023
Department of Energy —
This data packet contains hourly generation profiles (representative profiles) for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States. Hourly representative... -
Federal
WaterTAP-REFLO Simulations of Solar Energy Integrated Desalination Systems for KBHDP and Permian Basin Case Studies
Department of Energy —
This submission includes model simulations for several solar-integrated desalination water treatment systems. The simulations revolve around two different case... -
Federal
U.S. Wind and Solar PV Supply Curves with Future Land-use Change
Department of Energy —
This dataset provides future supply curves representing the total resource potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment in the conterminous... -
Federal
Wind and Structural Loads on Heliostats
Department of Energy —
Wind loading is a main contributor to structural design costs of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) collectors, such as heliostats. These structures must resist the... -
Federal
Solar PV Railroad Setbacks: Ordinances (2022) and Extrapolated Trends
Department of Energy —
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... -
Federal
Video Surveillance Imagery of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) Facility Recorded by the USGS during Spring and Fall 2014
Department of the Interior —
In this observational pilot study, we worked at the largest existing solar tower facility in the world (Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System - ISEGS) to assess... -
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United States Utility-Scale PV Supply Curves 2023
Department of Energy —
This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States....