Geospatial Data Tools

BioFuels Atlas
Conduct geospatial analysis of U.S. biomass resources and biofuels production.

BioPower Atlas
Conduct geospatial analysis of U.S. biomass resources and power production.

Geothermal Prospector
An NLR-hosted interactive mapping application that merges a variety of geothermal datasets from numerous government and university sources.

Geothermal Data Repository
A U.S. Department of Energy-hosted directory of geothermal data submitted by researchers.

HyDRA
View, download, and analyze hydrogen data spatially and dynamically. HyDRA contains hydrogen demand, resource, infrastructure, cost, production, and distribution data.

U.S. Hydrogen Potential From Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Hydro Resources

This study estimated the quantity of hydrogen that could be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power by county in the United States. It also examined factors to be considered in assessing the likely locations for hydrogen production, such as infrastructure and water availability.

Hydrogen Resource Assessment: Hydrogen Potential From Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear and Hydro Power, NLR Technical Report (2009)

U.S. Hydrogen Market Analysis

We provide support to the HyDS (Hydrogen Deployment System Model), a computer model of U.S. market expansion of hydrogen production from wind and other sources over the next 50 years.

Modeling the Market Potential of Hydrogen From Wind and Competing Sources, WINDPOWER (2005)

U.S. Hydrogen Resource Data Set

This hydrogen data estimates the potential for producing hydrogen from onshore wind, solar photovoltaic, and biomass energy by county for the United States.

The zipped shapefile data set is designed to be used in geographic information system software applications.

This study found that approximately 1 billion metric tons of hydrogen could be produced annually from wind, solar, and biomass resources in the United States. The greatest potential for producing hydrogen from these resources is in the Great Plains region.

U.S. Data

Marine Energy Atlas
Features wave energy resources and ocean thermal energy conversions for all U.S. coastlines.

Hydrodynamic Testing Facilities Database
Provides data on a range of test capabilities and services available at commercial, academic, and government facilities and offshore berths within the United States.

U.S. and International Data

Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology Database
Includes wave, tidal, current, and ocean thermal energy data and information about energy conversion technologies, companies active in the field, and projects under development.

U.S. Data

Developer Network: Solar
This is a list of resources intended to help developers programmatically gain access to NLR's geospatial solar data and models.

Solar Radiation Research Laboratory: Baseline Measurement System
Provides access to live graphical displays, current and historic datasets and more at NLR's Solar Radiation Research Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

Federal Energy Management Program Screening Map
Examines the viability of three solar technologies in the United States at the state and federal levels.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Tracking the Sun
Collaborative effort between government, industry, and the public to compile a comprehensive database of photovoltaic installation data for the United States.

National Solar Radiation Database
Contains high-resolution meteorological and solar irradiance datasets for select global regions.

Solar Supply Curves
View solar supply curve data, which include latitude, longitude, available area, capacity potential, generation potential, generator capacity factor, and distance to interconnect.

PVDAQ
Features U.S. photovoltaic performance data contributed to NLR.

PVWatts
Estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic energy systems throughout the world.

Solar for All
Visualizes U.S. rooftop solar technical potential by income, building type, and tenure occupancy in the residential sector.

International Data

National Solar Radiation Database: International Data
Features a growing list of meteorological and solar irradiance data sets for countries in different parts of the world.

Wind Prospector
Visualizes data and analyzes the potential for wind energy.

WIND Toolkit
Includes meteorological conditions and turbine power for more than 126,000 sites in the continental United States.

Wind Supply Curves
View wind supply curve data, which include latitude, longitude, available area, capacity potential, generation potential, generator capacity factor, and distance to interconnect.

Developer Network: Wind
Provides access to wind resource data and NLR models.

Eastern Wind Data Set
Provides energy professionals with a consistent set of wind profiles for the eastern United States. It features 10-minute, time-series wind data for 2004, 2005, and 2006. More than 1,326 simulated wind farm data points are available across the eastern United States.

Western Wind Data Set
Provides energy professionals with a consistent set of wind profiles across the western United States. Features 10-minute, time-series wind data for 2004, 2005, and 2006. More than 30,000 data points are available across the western United States.

Flatirons Campus Meteorological Tower Data
Includes live graphical displays and wind data.

RE Atlas
Features energy resource data for the United States.

reV Model
Empowers users to calculate energy capacity, generation, and cost based on geospatial intersection with grid infrastructure and land-use characteristics.

Energy Supply Curves
Characterize the quantity, quality, and cost of energy resources.

State and Local Planning for Energy Tool
Provides jurisdictionally resolved energy data for state and local energy planning.