Planning resource adequacy of wind- and solar-based electricity systems: Input data and results files

This record contains the input data and results files for a forthcoming study titled "Planning resource adequacy of wind- and solar-based electricity systems"

The associated paper is currently under peer-review and will be linked when available.

The input data contains wind and solar generation availability profiles and electricity demand profiles for the contiguous US. The profiles cover the years 1950-2022 and are calculated from the ERA5 dataset. The study only used the satellite era data from the year 1979 onward. Input profiles are presented at 4 resolutions: hourly, 2-hour, 3-hour, and 4-hour resolution.

The results files contain some keys indicating the modeling scenario used: "SWB" = "Solar+Wind+Battery"; "SWBNG" = "Solar+Wind+Battery+Natural Gas generation"; and "SWBPGP" = "Solar+Wind+Battery+Power-to-H2-to-Power Loop". The files can be grouped into multiple categories:

The main analysis including the initial energy system optimization results and the secondary system performance testing results.

Initial optimization results are found in zip files titled "Initial_Optimization_Jan29v1_*.zip"

The testing of the optimized systems are found in the zip file "Lost_Load_Decade_Testing_Jan29v1.zip"

A secondary analysis compared systems optimized on a single year of data and tested on a single other year of data. Those results are in "Matrix_Figure_NYrs1_Aug04v1.zip"

A supplementary analysis compared the modeled results using input data with the 4 different time resolutions. These results can be found in the zip files titled "DeltaT_Test_July08v1dt*.zip"