Description
This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV 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 PV installations are permissible based on various siting assumptions. This data packet contains information for the Reference and Limited siting scenarios.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Link Supply Curves with Temporal Profiles.ipynb | Python | 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. | Open resource |
| Limited Access 2030 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) 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. | Open resource |
| Limited Access 2030 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Limited Access Utility-scale PV Supply Curve. | Open resource |
| Open Access 2030 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) 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. | Open resource |
| Open Access 2030 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Open Access Utility-scale PV Supply Curve. | Open resource |
| Reference Access 2030 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) 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. | Open resource |
| Reference Access 2030 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Reference Access Utility-scale PV Supply Curve. | Open resource |
| Solar Exclusions Map.png | PNG | Cartographic map of solar exclusion areas. | Open resource |
| Solar Limited Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Limited scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Solar Limited Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Limited scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Solar Open Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Open scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Solar PV reV Supply Curve Column Lookup.csv | CSV | Column headers and descriptions for the supply curve. | Open resource |
| Solar Reference Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Reference scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Solar Reference Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Reference scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Solar Photovoltaics and Land-Based Wind Technical Potential and Supply Curves for the Contiguous United States | 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. | Open resource |