Vibrant Clean Energy (VCE), Pattern Energy, Catalyst Cooperative, and GridLab have released the Resource Adequacy Renewable Energy (RARE) Power Dataset, an open-source solar and wind dataset for power systems planners.
With support from GridLab, Catalyst Cooperative will host and distribute the renewable energy dataset. The dataset includes hourly solar, onshore, and offshore wind production data, published at a county granularity by aggregating 3 km data for the contiguous United States. The first release contains data for the years 2019-2023, while a further release in Q1 2025 will include data for 2014-2018. The foundation for this dataset comprises weather variables produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's High-resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) operational numerical weather prediction model.
