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Solar Resource Maps and Data
NREL's solar resource maps and data page hosts a variety of geospatial resources showing solar irradiance, photovoltaic potential, and related meteorological variables across the United States. These include maps of global horizontal irradiance, direct normal irradiance, and diffu...
Sengupta, M. et al NLR
Mar 09, 2025
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
Solar Geospatial Data Tools
NREL offers several geospatial data tools for solar energy planning. Tools like the Solar Prospector allow users to explore solar resource layers in combination with land ownership, slope, protected areas, and infrastructure data to identify potential project sites. Users can quer...
NLR
Nov 12, 2024
Wind Geospatial Data Tools
NREL offers a suite of geospatial data tools to aid in wind energy planning. These include interactive maps and analytical applications that integrate wind resource layers with land ownership, environmental exclusions, and infrastructure data. Tools such as the Wind Prospector all...
NLR
Mar 25, 2025
Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM)
The Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM) is a data-rich web portal managed by Argonne National Laboratory that integrates spatial datasets on energy infrastructure, land use, environmental sensitivity, and demographic characteristics. Users can visualize existing and proposed energy pro...
Argonne National Laboratory
Dec 31, 2025
Hydrogen Resource Data, Tools, and Maps
NREL's hydrogen resource page aggregates datasets, tools, and interactive maps related to hydrogen production, distribution, and infrastructure. It includes maps showing renewable resource potential for electrolysis, locations of existing and planned hydrogen fueling stations, and...
NLR
Mar 25, 2025
Pumped Storage Hydropower Supply Curves
NREL's pumped storage hydropower (PSH) supply curves integrate data on reservoir pairs, elevation differences, energy storage capacity, and cost estimates to estimate the potential energy and cost of developing new PSH projects. The dataset and interactive map categorize potential...
NLR
Mar 09, 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
Solar Supply Curves
Like the wind supply curves, NREL's solar supply curve dataset integrates high resolution solar resource data, land-use constraints, and cost assumptions to estimate the potential capacity and levelized cost of solar photovoltaic development across the United States. The interacti...
NLR
Jan 06, 2025
Wind Supply Curves
NREL's wind supply curve tool compiles high resolution wind resource data and transmission information to produce supply curves that show the relationship between wind resource quality, capacity, and cost. The interactive map and downloadable dataset help analysts and developers i...
NLR
Mar 25, 2025
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