Catalyst is helping GridLab, Pattern Energy Group, and Vibrant Clean Energy distribute a new open (CC-BY-4.0 licensed) dataset produced by Vibrant Clean Energy which provides hourly, county-level wind and solar generation profiles based on NOAA’s High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) weather model. The data release was announced at the ESIG’s Fall Technical Workshop on October 21st, 2024.
The new data is included in PUDL v2024.10.0 in Apache Parquet format. You can explore the dataset in this Jupyter notebook on Kaggle. The original 8760 hourly data as CSVs can be downloaded from Zenodo as well.
To learn more about why this kind of data is vital to the energy transition, check out ESIG’s report on Weather Data for Power System Planning.
