Vibrant Clean Energy Resource Adequacy Renewable Energy (RARE) Power Dataset

This dataset was produced by Vibrant Clean Energy and is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0). The data consists of hourly, county-level renewable generation profiles in the continental United States and was compiled based on outputs from the NOAA HRRR weather model. Profiles are stated as a capacity factor (a percentage of nameplate capacity) and exist for onshore wind, offshore wind, and fixed-tilt solar generation types.

Archived by Catalyst Cooperative from data provided directly from the dataset's creator. For more information, see https://vibrantcleanenergy.com/products/datasets/

This archive contains raw input data for the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) software developed by Catalyst Cooperative. It is organized into Frictionless Data Packages. For additional information about this data and PUDL, see the following resources:

The PUDL Repository on GitHub

PUDL Documentation

Other Catalyst Cooperative data archives