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U.S. Agrivoltaics Irradiance Database
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - view all
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Last updated5 days ago
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Overview

This is a foundational data set for research and deployment of agrivoltaics, which is the co-location of agriculture and solar power plants on the same land. This irradiance and shading dataset can be utilized to determine the suitability of agrivoltaics configurations for a given region and crop-type. The data is hourly, 4x4 km resolution across the contiguous United States and Hawaii. It is calculated from the National Solar Radiation Database sites, using the System Advisor Model (SAM) to simulate the shading patterns for 10 common agrivoltaics configurations. Sunlight availability data is reported for 10 locations on the ground between adjacent rows of solar panels, as well as averaged across areas of interest such as the average irradiance in the edge-to-edge open area or across 3-6 planting beds. Other available metrics include the input meteorological data from the NSRDB (e.g. global horizontal irradiance, wind speed, etc.) and estimates for comparing energy and agricultural characteristic across the 10 configurations, including power output per acre or per kW installed capacity and farmable land area per acre.

CONUSHawaiiNSRDBSAMUnited Statesagricultureagrivoltaicsdatadatasetenergyirradiancenatural resourceopen source softwarepowerprocessed datashadingsolarsolar power
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Dcat Issued2025-11-05T07:00:00Z
Dcat Modified2026-02-20T17:40:48Z
Dcat Publisher NameNational Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Guidhttps://data.openei.org/submissions/8568
Harvest Object Id793585b0-943d-4ff7-96b0-950cfc4107ce
Harvest Source Id4eb7107f-a2b1-40e3-b36a-8161aa98a56e
Harvest Source TitleOpenEI Data Portal
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Files
  • InSPIRE Project Website

  • OEDI Data Registry on AWS

  • U.S. Agrivoltaics Irradiance Database Access IO GitHub

  • Agrivoltaics Shading Tool

  • Agrivoltaics Irradiance Data on AWS