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Resource Reporting Methodology Analysis and Development of Geothermal Reporting Metric for GTO's Hydrothermal Program

The US Geological Survey (USGS) resource assessment (Williams et al., 2009) outlined a mean 30GWe of undiscovered hydrothermal resource in the western US. One goal of the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) is to accelerate the development of this…
NREL
energy
data
geothermal
RE
renewable
analysis
USGS
hydrothermal
geologic
geochemistry
case study
reporting
metric
geothermal links
Western United States
Drilling
power production
Submitted 01/19/2016 - 15:10 by Katherine Young

Metering Best Practices Applied in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Research Support Facility: A Primer to the 2011 Measured and Modeled Energy Consumption Datasets

Modern buildings are complex energy systems that must be controlled for energy efficiency. The Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has hundreds of controllers -- computers that communicate with the building…
NREL
energy
data
energy conservation
consumption
utilization
mathematics and computing research
Research Support Facility
RSF
Golden
colorado
control strategy
energy modeling
electricity
resources
buildings
building systems
energy analysis
Submitted 03/25/2016 - 13:58 by Michael Sheppy

Transportation Secure Data Center

The Transportation Secure Data Center (TSDC) at https//www.nrel.gov/tsdc provides free access to detailed transportation data from travel surveys and studies conducted across the nation. It features millions of data points including second-by-second GPS…
energy
transportation
transportation data
transportation secure data center
global positioning system GPS data
travel studies
travel surveys
vehicle characteristics
road network
road grade
GPS
renewable energy
RE
Golden
colorado
spatial analysis
travel distance
speed
Department of Transportation
Submitted 03/28/2016 - 14:10 by tsdc@nrel.gov

Fleet DNA

Available online at www.nrel.gov/fleetdna, the Fleet DNA clearinghouse of commercial fleet vehicle operating data helps manufacturers and developers optimize vehicle designs and helps fleet managers choose advanced technologies for their fleets…
energy
data
Fleet DNA
medium-duty vehicles
heavy-duty vehicles
commercial fleet vehicle operating data
vehicle manufacturers
vehicle operators
fleet managers
advanced vehicle technologies
data visualizations
commercial vehicle vocations
United States
on-line tool
transportation
analysis
Submitted 03/28/2016 - 16:51 by fleetdna@nrel.gov

India Direct Normal & Global Horizontal Irradiance Solar Resources

GIS data for India's direct normal irradiance (DNI) and global horizontal irradiance. Provides 10-kilometer (km) solar resource maps and data for India. The 10-km hourly solar resource data were developed using weather satellite (METEOSAT)…
NREL
energy
data
maps
India
renewable energy
RE
irradiance
GIS
solar
satellite
METEOSAT
solar modeling
analysis
direct solar irradiance
DNI
10-kilometer
shape files
Submitted 04/11/2016 - 11:53 by Anthony Lopez

NREL Biomethane GIS Data

This dataset contains information about the biomass resources generated by county in the United States. It includes the following feedstock categories: crop residues, forest residues, primary mill residues, secondary mill residues, and urban wood waste. …
NREL
energy
data
Biomass
GIS
biomethane
shapefile
renewable energy
RE
United States
geospatial
Submitted 04/25/2016 - 14:49 by Nicholas Langle

Gearbox Reliability Collaborative Phase 3 Gearbox 2 Test

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Gearbox Reliability Collaborative (GRC) was established by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2006; its key goal is to understand the root causes of premature gearbox failures and improve their reliability…
NREL
energy
data
GRC
NWTC
colorado
Boulder
turbines
Gearbox
Reiliability
Testing
Modeling
Dynamometer
analysis
fatigue
Submitted 05/02/2016 - 13:03 by Jonathan Keller

Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections 2015 Edition

This is the fourth edition in an annual briefing prepared jointly by LBNL and NREL intended to provide a high-level overview of historical, recent, and projected near-term PV system pricing trends in the United States. The briefing draws on several…
NREL
energy
data
PV
photovoltaic
solar energy
system cost
system price
renewable energy
RE
Submitted 05/12/2016 - 15:15 by David Feldman

U.S. PV-Suitable Rooftop Resources

This dataset contains zipcode resolution estimates of suitable area on small (1,000-5,000 m^2), medium (5,000-10,000 m^2) and large (>10,000 m^2) buildings' rooftops for PV deployment.
NREL
energy
data
photovoltaic
rooftop
solar
resource
prediction
zipcode
renewable energy
RE
PV
USA
Submitted 06/10/2016 - 16:05 by Caleb Phillips

Grid Connected Functionality

Dataset demonstrating the potential benefits that residential buildings can provide for frequency regulation services in the electric power grid. In a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation, simulated homes along with a physical laboratory home are…
NREL
energy
data
frequency regulation
building-to-grid
home energy management
volttron
aggregator
connected appliances
Energy Systems Integration Facility
ESIF
Golden
colorado
electricity
power grid
residential buildings
Submitted 06/21/2016 - 13:34 by Kyri Baker