Data · dataset · 2026
A new hourly dataset for photovoltaic energy production for the continental USA
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
This new dataset is an ensemble of solar photovoltaic energy production simulations over the continental US.
Description
The simulations are carried out in three steps. First, a weather forecast system is used for the predictions of incoming insolation; then, forecast ensembles with 21 members are generated using the Analog Ensemble technique; finally, each ensemble member is used to simulate 13 different solar panels.
In total, there are 21 X 13 = 273 simulated scenarios. Simulations are carried out for the entire year 2019, with a temporal resolution of one hour, and a spatial resolution of 12 km. The data provide a high spatio-temporal analysis of the power production under different weather and engineering scenarios.
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The size of the entire dataset is about 1 TB but can be openly accessed by days and scenarios. Details on how to access and use such a dataset are provided in this article.
Links
Get the data
- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7rj4p5h ↗
documentation · download · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/a-new-hourly-dataset-for-photovoltaic-energy-productio… ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=105f5c5c-8f81-49cb-a2ee-e88999da3… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Climate change science 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | 105f5c5c-8f81-49cb-a2ee-e88999da3f82 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3702 | enrichment · data ucar edu | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
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