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Biomass Resource Data, Tools, and Maps
NREL's biomass resources page aggregates a suite of datasets, interactive maps, and analytical tools focused on biomass feedstocks in the United States. Resources include county-level supply estimates for crop and forest residues, urban wood waste, and energy crops; supply curves ...
NLR
Mar 25, 2025
BioPower Atlas
NREL's BioPower Atlas is a web-based tool that visualizes the spatial distribution of biomass resources and existing infrastructure related to bioenergy production. Users can view layers showing the availability of crop residues, forest residues, animal manure, and other feedstock...
NLR
Jul 28, 2022
BioFuels Atlas
The BioFuels Atlas is an online geospatial tool developed by NREL that supports planning and deployment of biofuel projects. Users can visualize and query layers showing biomass feedstock availability (crop residues, woody biomass, waste oils), existing biorefineries and ethanol p...
NLR
Jul 28, 2022
JEDI: Jobs and Economic Development Impact Models
NREL's JEDI models provide transparent, user-friendly tools for estimating the jobs and economic impacts associated with energy projects, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and fossil fuels. Users input project-specific data such as capital costs, local spending, and job ...
NLR
Apr 20, 2024
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
Renewable Electricity Infrastructure and Resources Dashboard
The Renewable Electricity Infrastructure and Resources Dashboard, hosted on ArcGIS by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, combines datasets on power plants, transmission lines, and renewable resource potential into an interactive interface. Users can toggle layers showing ...
Energy Information Administration
Dec 31, 2025
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
RE Atlas
The Renewable Energy Atlas is a web based mapping platform maintained by NREL that provides high resolution global data for solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and marine resources. Users can toggle layers to view resource intensity, land ownership, environmental constraints, and in...
NLR
Jul 28, 2022
U.S. Biogas-Methane Resources by County
NREL's biomethane resource dataset quantifies the 2014 methane generation potential for each U.S. county from biogas feedstocks, including landfills, livestock manure, wastewater treatment, and industrial, institutional, and commercial waste. Delivered as GIS shapefiles, the datas...
Milbrandt, A. NLR
Jan 13, 2014
Introducing Small Scale Waste-to-Energy Technology in Microgrids: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-17-00703
Cogent has developed an innovative, proprietary waste-to-energy (WTE) system, the HelioStorm(TM) Gasifier, capable of efficiently operating on small amounts of heterogeneous municipal solid waste feedstocks, converting them into a clean syngas that can be used to fuel an electrici...
Kramer, B. NLR
Feb 28, 2022
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