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Photovoltaic Data Acquisition (PVDAQ) Public Datasets
Department of Energy —
The NREL PVDAQ is a large-scale time-series database containing system metadata and performance data from a variety of experimental PV sites and commercial public PV... -
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National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)
Department of Energy —
The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) is a serially complete collection of meteorological and solar irradiance data sets for the United States and a growing... -
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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... -
Federal
PVWatts Calculator
Department of Energy —
Interactive web application that allows homeowners, installers and manufacturers to easily develop estimates of the performance of potential PV installations at... -
Federal
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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U.S. Counties FIPS Layer
Department of Energy —
This dataset, which represents county Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) codes for each county as a raster, is utilized by reVX to compute setbacks... -
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2024 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies
Department of Energy —
These data provide the 2024 update of the Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB). Starting in 2015 NREL has presented the ATB, consisting of detailed cost and... -
Federal
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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JPL Photojournal
National Aeronautics and Space Administration —
View detailed images of the planets, the sun, small bodies, and the Universe from various NASA exploration programs. -
Federal
Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration —
The POWER Project contains over 380 satellite-derived meteorology and solar energy Analysis Ready Data (ARD) at four temporal levels: hourly, daily, monthly (by year... -
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ARPA-E PERFORM datasets
Department of Energy —
Time-coincident load, wind, and solar data including actual and probabilistic forecast datasets at 5-min resolution for ERCOT, MISO, NYISO, and SPP. Wind and solar... -
Federal
Solar Dynamics Observatory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration —
A searchable database of all Solar Dynamics Observatory data including EUV, magnetograms, visible light and X-ray. SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first... -
Federal
Solar-to-Grid Public Data File for Utility-scale (UPV) and Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) Generation, Capacity Credit, and Value
Department of Energy —
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) estimates hourly project-level generation data for utility-scale solar projects and hourly county-level... -
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Solar Permit Applications
Town of Cary, North Carolina —
This dataset contains a subset of data from our Building Permit Application dataset. The data has been filtered to only include permit applications for solar (permit...