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

This record contains the input data and raw results files for the study titled "Planning reliable wind- and solar-based electricity systems." Tyler H. Ruggles, Edgar Virgüez, Natasha Reich, Jacqueline Dowling, Hannah Bloomfield, Enrico G.A. Antonini, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira, "Planning reliable wind- and solar-based electricity systems," Advances in Applied Energy, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2024.100185. Additionally, csv files are provided to recreate the associated figures in the paper in the "Figures_files.zip" file. 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"