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    • U.S. Agrivoltaics Irradiance Database

    Metadata Updated: February 21, 2026

    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 region and crop-type. The data is hourly, 4x4 km resolution across the contiguous United States and Hawaii. It is calculated from the National Solar Radiation Database sites, using the System Advisor Model (SAM) to simulate the shading patterns for 10 common agrivoltaics configurations. Sunlight availability data is reported for 10 locations on the ground between adjacent rows of solar panels, as well as averaged across areas of interest such as the average irradiance in the edge-to-edge open area or across 3-6 planting beds. Other available metrics include the input meteorological data from the NSRDB (e.g. global horizontal irradiance, wind speed, etc.) and estimates for comparing energy and agricultural characteristic across the 10 configurations, including power output per acre or per kW installed capacity and farmable land area per acre.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 21, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2026

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 21, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2026
    Publisher National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8568
    Data First Published 2025-11-05T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-02-20T17:40:48Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Homepage URL https://data.openei.org/submissions/8568
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:000, 019:008
    Projectnumber 52944
    Projecttitle InSPIRE
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