Historical and modelled renewable energy production for India

This archive contains all the datasets produced for the paper:Hunt, K. M. R., & Bloomfield, H. C. (2024). Quantifying renewable energy potential and realized capacity in India: Opportunities and challenges. Meteorological Applications, 31(3), e2196. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2196

Data Description 
Figure/Table
 File Name
Dates Valid

Installed capacity by type in each state
Table 1
installed-by-state-oct2022.csv
Oct 2022

All-India installed capacity by type
Figure 2
tabulated-installed-by-date.csv
2017–2023

Hourly wind capacity factor
Figure 4
wind capacity factor.zip
1979–2022

Hourly solar capacity factor
Figure 6
solar capacity factor.zip 
1979–2022

Present-day installation locations
Figure 11
OSM[hydropower,wind_turbine,solar]_ installations.geojson
Mar 2022

Gridded 1°×1° estimate of installed wind/solar capacity
Figure 12a/13a
CEA_1x1_gridded_installed_[wind,solar]_cap.nc
May 2021

Gridded 1°×1° estimate of installed wind capacity
Figure 12b
TWP_1x1_gridded_installed_wind_cap.nc
May 2021

Gridded 1°×1° estimate of installed solar capacity
Figure 13b
K21_1x1_gridded installed solar cap.nc
Sep 2018

Reported daily wind/solar/hydro production
Figure 14/S3
POSOCO_reported_[wind,solar,hydro]_MU_ daily.csv
2012–2023

Modelled ‘historical’ production
Figure 14/16/S4a/b
modelled-historical-[daily,hourly]-renewable output.nc
1979–2022

Recommended locations for new wind/solar installations
Figure 17
areas-for-exploration.nc
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