U.S. Wind and Solar PV Supply Curves with Future Land-use Change

Description

This dataset provides future supply curves representing the total resource potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment in the conterminous United States after accounting for the impact of land-use and land-cover change (LULC). We use LULC projections from 2010 to 2050 developed based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emission Scenarios. The LULC projections are subsequently fed into the renewable energy potential model (reV), which estimates total available wind and solar capacity after excluding non-developable land. Supply curves are provided for four IPCC scenarios in 2050: A1B, A2, B1, and B2. As a baseline, we also provide the supply curve from the B2 scenario in 2010. In addition to the supply curves, we also provide representative wind and solar generation profiles for each supply curve point. These generation profiles are provided as capacity factors and are based on a 2012 weather year using NSRDB and WindToolkit resource data. For more details on the supply curve and profile datasets included here please refer to README. Additional information on the supply curves and the LULC projections used to generate them, as well as an analysis of their impact on wind and solar deployment under decarbonization can be found in the publication linked below: "U.S. Wind and Solar PV Supply Curves with Future Land-use Change Publication".

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 The supply curves are .csv files that provide details on each reV grid cell, its available wind or solar capacity potential, and other attributes of the site. See README for additional details. https://data.openei.org/files/6160/Supply%20Curves.zip
57 Representative hourly generation profile .h5 files for each reV site identified in the supply curve table. Ssee README for additional details. https://data.openei.org/files/6160/Profiles.zip
28 Provides an overview of supply curve and profile datasets. https://data.openei.org/files/6160/README%20%281%29.md
0 Publication describing the supply curves, methods used to generate them, and analysis of their impact. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173872

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  • supply-curve
  • rev
  • data
  • land-use
  • pv
  • photovoltaic
  • solar
  • land-cover
  • united-states
  • capacity-factor
  • wind-power
  • wind
  • solar-energy
  • power
  • model
  • climate-change
  • wind-energy
  • energy-analysis
  • generation-profiles
  • siting
  • solar-power
  • energy

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