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Renewable Energy Supply Curves

NREL's renewable energy supply curve analysis provides a framework for evaluating the quantity and quality of renewable resources such as wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass relative to their cost. Supply curves plot the cumulative capacity or energy available at or b...

NLR

Mar 25, 2025

System Advisor Model (SAM) General Description (Version 2017.9.5)

This document provides a general description of the System Advisor Model (SAM) version 2017.9.5. It explains the software's purpose as a free techno-economic modeling tool for evaluating renewable energy projects, including photovoltaic, wind, concentrating solar, geothermal, and ...

Keith, J. et al NLR

May 01, 2018

Cambium

Cambium is an NREL data set and tool that offers hour-by-hour projections of marginal emissions and electricity costs across U.S. regions under multiple future scenarios. The tool combines technology cost assumptions, policy contexts, and generation mix trajectories to produce dat...

NLR

Apr 27, 2025

Cambium 2024 Scenario Descriptions and Documentation

This document provides detailed descriptions of the scenarios featured in NREL's 2024 Cambium data set. It explains assumptions about technology costs, policy environments, and demand projections that shape the future electricity sector scenarios. The documentation helps users int...

Gagnon, P. et al NLR

Mar 31, 2025

2024 Electricity ATB Technologies and Data Overview

The 2024 Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) compiles current and projected cost and performance characteristics for a wide range of electricity generation technologies, including solar, wind, fossil, nuclear, and storage systems. This overview summarizes key assumptions ...

NLR

Aug 22, 2024

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