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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
WEC-Sim Wave Energy Converter Simulator
WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open-source wave energy converter (WEC) simulation tool.
The code is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK using the multi-body dynamics solver SimMechanics. WEC-Sim has the ability to model devices that are…
NREL
energy
data
MATLAB
SIMULINK
WEC-Sim
Wind and Water
SNL
Sandia
energy conversion
hydro
kenetic
simulation
simulation tool
software
wave energy
water power
power-take-off-system
University of Oregon: GPS-based Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV)
A partnership with the University of Oregon and U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to collect Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) data to compliment existing resource assessment data collection by the university.
NREL
energy
data
solar energy
wind energy
midc
meteorological
measurement
instrumentation
weather
outdoor
precipitable water vapor
PWV
water column
Oregon
Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One
Renewable Electricity Futures Study - Volume One. This is part of a series of four volumes describing exploring a high-penetration renewable electricity future for the United States of America. This data set is provides data for the entire volume one…
NREL
energy
data
renewable energy
electricity
high-penetration of renewables
electricity future
Futures
bioenergy
geothermal energy
CSP
concentrating solar power
energy analysis
water power
wind energy
photovoltaics
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
Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA): Hawaii Ocean Science & Technology Park; Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
A partnership with the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority and U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to collect solar data to support future solar power generation in the United States. The measurement station…
NREL
energy
data
Hawaii
solar
measurement
instrumentation
Kailua-Kona
RE
renewable
midc
Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center
Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC): Solar Resource & Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRAMP)
Located in Colorado, near Denver International Airport, SolarTAC is a private, member-based, 74-acre outdoor facility where the solar industry tests, validates, and demonstrates advanced solar technologies. SolarTAC was launched in 2008 by a public…
NREL
energy
data
RE
renewable
meteorological
colorado
solartac
calibration
Aurora
CO
solar
SOLRMAP
US
resource assessment
United States Virgin Islands: St. Thomas (Bovoni) & St. Croix (Longford)
Two measurement stations to collect wind data to support future wind power generation in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
midc
solar
irradiance
meterological
data
measurement
instrumentation
solar calendar
wind rose
display
weather
outdoor
global
temperature
humidity
wind
pressure
precipitation
thermopile
pyranometer
radiometer
SODAR
wind energy
renewable energy
RE
United States Virgin Islands
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Bovoni
Longford
NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL): Baseline Measurement System (BMS); Golden, Colorado (Data)
The SRRL was established at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) in 1981 to provide continuous measurements of the solar resources, outdoor calibrations of pyranometers and pyrheliometers, and to characterize commercially available…
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
data
weather
OUTDOORS
humidity
wind
precipitation
THERMOCOUPLES
PYRANOMETERS
PYRHELIOMETERS
RADIOMETERS
silicon
SPECTRA
SPECTROMETERS
PHOTOMETERS
albedo
WATER VAPOR
TURBIDITY
ELECTRIC FIELDS
CLOUD COVER
DEW POINT
srrl
bms
baseline
midc
solar
irradiance
meterological
measurement
instrumentation
solar calendar
wind rose
display
real-time
outdoor
global
direct
diffuse
temperature
pressure
thermopile
tracker
pyranometer
pyrheliometer
radiometer
rotating
shadowband
rsr
rsp
spectrum
spectroradiometer
spectrometer
photometer
pyrgeometer
infrared
IR
ultra-violet
UV
AOD
sky image
imager
sky camera
sky scanner
quantum
photometric
PAR
electric field
dry bulb
wet bulb
radiation
normal
plane of array
two axis
one axis
tilted
vertical
research
aerosols
analysis
Xcel Energy Comanche Station: Pueblo, Colorado (Data)
A partnership with industry and U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to collect solar data to support future solar power generation in the United States. The measurement station monitors global horizontal, direct…
midc
solar
irradiance
meterological
data
measurement
instrumentation
solar calendar
display
weather
outdoor
global
direct
diffuse
temperature
humidity
wind
pressure
precipitation
silicon
rotating
shadowband
pyranometer
radiometer
rsr
rsp
renewable energy
RE
Pueblo
colorado
Xcel
NREL