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United States Utility-Scale PV Supply Curves 2024
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Overview

This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCOE), levelized cost of transmission (LCOT), and more for each reV site (~60,000 sites). Hourly generation profiles are available for each reV site and can be matched to the available capacity in the supply curve (refer to the Jupyter Notebook). The composite exclusion TIFF is a single file that delineates areas where PV installations are permissible based on various siting assumptions. This data packet contains information for the Reference and Limited siting scenarios. The PV system cost and parameters were obtained from the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) 2023. For further details and citation, please refer to the publication linked below: Lopez, Anthony, Gabe Zuckerman, Pavlo Pinchuk, Michael Gleason, Marie Rivers, Owen Roberts, Travis Williams, Donna Heimiller, Sophie-Min Thomson, Trieu Mai, and Wesley Cole. 2025. Renewable Energy Technical Potential and Supply Curves for the Contiguous United States: 2024 Edition. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-6A20-91900.

2024PVPower ProfilesSiting LabSitingLabSupply CurveUtility-scale PVcapacitycost of energycost of transmissiongenerationhourly generationreVsitingsolar PVsolar powersupply curvesutility-scale
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Dcat Issued2025-01-01T07:00:00Z
Dcat Modified2025-04-02T19:44:48Z
Dcat Publisher NameNational Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Files
  • Reference Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv

  • Open Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv

  • Limited Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv

  • Solar Reference Exclusions Percent Included.tif

  • Solar Open Exclusions Percent Included.tif

  • Solar Limited Exclusions Percent Included.tif

  • Reference Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5

  • Open Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5

  • Limited Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5

  • Solar PV reV Supply Curve Column Lookup.csv

  • Technical Documentation

  • How to Link Supply Curves with Temporal Profiles