United States Land-based Wind Supply Curves 2023

Description

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for land-based wind across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCOE), levelized cost of transmission (LCOT), and more for each reV site (~60,000 sites). Hourly generation profiles are available for each reV site and can be matched to the available capacity in the supply curve (refer to the Jupyter Notebook). The composite exclusion TIFF is a single file that delineates areas where wind installations are permissible based on various siting assumptions. This data packet contains information for the Reference and Limited siting scenarios. The turbine parameters used were a hub-height of 115 meters and a rotor diameter of 170 meters, as obtained from the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) 2022. For further details and citation, please refer to the publication linked below: Lopez, Anthony, Pavlo Pinchuk, Michael Gleason, Wesley Cole, Trieu Mai, Travis Williams, Owen Roberts, Marie Rivers, Mike Bannister, Sophie-Min Thomson, Gabe Zuckerman, and Brian Sergi. 2024. Solar Photovoltaics and Land-Based Wind Technical Potential and Supply Curves for the Contiguous United States: 2023 Edition. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-6A20-87843.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Reference Access for the Land-base Wind Supply Curve. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_supply-curve.csv
8 Column headers and descriptions for the supply curve. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/lbw_rev_supply_curve_column_lookup.csv
34 Cartographic map of wind exclusion areas. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/WindExclusionMap.png
48 This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Limited scenario. Pixels with a value of 0 are excluded from wind development. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/limited_115hh_170rd.tiff
8 Limited access land-based wind supply curve. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/limited_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_supply-curve.csv
0 This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/limited_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_rep-profiles_2012.h5
48 This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Reference scenario. Pixels with a value of 0 are excluded from wind development. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_115hh_170rd.tiff
0 This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_rep-profiles_2012.h5
0 This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_rep-profiles_2012%20%281%29.h5
48 This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the open scenario. Pixels with a value of 0 are excluded from wind development. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/open_115hh_170rd.tif
48 This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Limited scenario. Pixels with a value of 0 are excluded from wind development. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/limited_115hh_170rd_sl.tif
48 This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Reference scenario. Pixels with a value of 0 are excluded from wind development. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_115hh_170rd_sl.tif
8 Open access for the land-based wind supply curve. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/open_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_supply_curve.csv
37 This Jupyter Notebook demonstrates how to work with and join the capacity information in the Supply Curve CSVs with the temporal profiles in the HDFs. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/How%20to%20Link%20Supply%20Curves%20with%20Temporal%20Profiles.ipynb
0 This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/limited_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_rep-profiles_2012%20%281%29.h5
33 In this, the 2023 edition of this report, we present new estimates of the technical potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) for the contiguous United States (CONUS). We also provide cost estimates for the available resources, presenting representative supply curves that can be used in downstream modeling and analysis. Additionally, we introduce new methodologies used to estimate wind capacity, wind energy losses, transmission cost and representation, updated technology cost and design, and scenarios of siting constraints designed to help bound the uncertainty of renewable potential. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/87843.pdf
8 Reference access for the land-base wind supply curve. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/reference_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_supply-curve%20%281%29.csv
0 This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. https://data.openei.org/files/6119/open_access_2030_moderate_115hh_170rd_representative_profiles%202012.h5

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  • cost-of-energy
  • supply-curve
  • rev
  • capacity
  • wind-power
  • land-based-wind
  • cost-of-transmission
  • siting-lab
  • 2023
  • supply-curves
  • energy-analysis
  • hourly-generation
  • sitinglab
  • siting
  • power-profiles
  • generation

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