The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has added a high-resolution solar data set covering Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East on its Renewable Energy Data Explorer tool.
NREL has released a new high-resolution solar data set on its publicly available geospatial analysis tool, the Renewable Energy Data Explorer. It covers Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
NREL says the data will help advance power system planning and solar energy deployment in the three areas and is tailored to the needs of stakeholders in energy sectors.
It said that the project was driven by challenges facing Tanzania and Ukraine, two countries where the availability of reliable, long-term resource data has proved a barrier in accelerating the deployment of renewable energy.
To produce the data set, researchers compiled data sources covering Africa, Europe, and the Middle East from…
