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    • 2024 County-Level Hourly Renewable Capacity Factor Dataset for the ReEDS Model

    Metadata Updated: April 30, 2025

    This dataset contains hourly capacity factors for each renewable resource class and region (in this case, county). Technologies like large-scale utility PV (UPV), onshore (land-based) wind, offshore wind, and concentrating solar power (CSP) are included. Hourly profiles are provided for 15 weather years covering 2007-2013 and 2016-2023 for all technologies except for CSP, which is only provided for 2007-2013 due to the lack of data covering the latter years.

    These data are used as inputs to the ReEDS-2.0 model (see the "ReEDS 2.0 GitHub Repository" resource link below), developed by NREL. The weather profiles apply to any capacity that exists or is built in each region and class. This helps calculate the generation that can be provided using these resources. These data are compatible with ReEDs Version 2025.1 and newer. To run county-level with older versions (2024.0-2024.3), use the data posted with the "Link to Data for Older Versions of ReEDS" resource below.

    Open, reference, and limited are 3 scenarios based on land-use allowance, derived from the Renewable Energy Potential (reV) model developed by NREL, which helps generate supply curves for renewable technologies and assess the maximum potential of renewable resources in a designated area. Each zipped file in this dataset corresponds to a technology and contains the respective land-use scenario files required to run that technology in ReEDS.

    To use this dataset, download and place the extracted files in the locally cloned ReEDS repository inside one of the folders (inputs/variability/multi_year). After completing this copy, upon running the ReEDS model at the county-level spatial resolution for respective analysis purposes, the program will detect the presence of these files and will not fail.

    The data provided here correspond to the 2024 supply curves from the reV model; for details see the "Renewable Energy Technical Potential and Supply Curves for the Contiguous United States - 2024 Edition" resource below. For additional details on the profiles see the README below.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date April 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 30, 2025

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    Metadata Updated Date April 30, 2025
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