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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
Valuing wind as a distributed energy resource: A literature review
As more distributed energy resources are deployed on electric grid systems across the world, it is important to identify, characterize, and quantify the value elements of different types of distributed energy resources so that policymakers, developers, and utilities can make infor...
Barrows, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nov 30, 2021
Distributed wind-hybrid microgrids with autonomous controls and forecasting
Distributed wind-hybrid microgrids have the potential to provide key resilience and economic benefits to both the customers they serve and the utility grids they are connected to. Such microgrids will likely be a key part of the grid of the future, whether connected to large utili...
Anderson, B. et al NLR
Mar 01, 2023
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
FEMP Screening Map
The FEMP Screening Map dataset provides geospatial layers that help federal agencies evaluate the suitability of sites for renewable energy projects. The dataset includes information on solar resource availability, wind speeds, land use, proximity to transmission lines, and enviro...
NLR
Jul 28, 2022
reV: The Renewable Energy Potential Model
reV (the Renewable Energy Potential Model) is a modular, open-source modeling tool developed by NREL to estimate technical potential, generation profiles, and capacity factors for renewable energy resources. It processes spatially resolved data including resource maps, land-use ex...
NLR
Mar 09, 2025
Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies
This dataset contains detailed cost and performance data for electricity generation technologies included in NREL's 2024 Annual Technology Baseline. The data provide capital costs, fixed and variable operating costs, capacity factors, and other technical parameters across technolo...
Akar, S. et al NLR
Dec 17, 2024
Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET)
DER-VET™ provides a free, publicly accessible, open-source platform for calculating, understanding, and optimizing the value of distributed energy resources (DER) based on their technical merits and constraints. An extension of EPRI's StorageVET® tool, DER-VET supports site-spe...
Electric Power Research Institute
Dec 17, 2024
Scaling Up Energy Efficiency Investment in Emerging Markets Private Sector Perspectives
Since 2000, electricity demand has flattened and decoupled from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. This trend is anticipated to continue for the next several decades and is largely attributed to the im...
Foster, J. et al U.S. Agency for International Development
Dec 31, 2019
HEM: Holistic Electricity Model
HEM is a holistic electricity system model developed by NREL that integrates multiple modules to simulate generation, transmission, distribution, and market operations. It allows researchers to evaluate the impacts of policy changes, technology costs, and system constraints on gri...
NLR
Apr 20, 2025
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