NREL Solar Resource Maps and Toolkit for Northwest India

The products contained in this CD-ROM were developed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in cooperation with India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, through funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of State.

This CD contains high-resolution solar resource maps and data products for northwestern India. The high-resolution (10-km) solar resource data were developed using weather satellite data incorporated into a site-time specific solar mapping approach developed at the U.S. State University of New York at Albany. The data were output as data in Geographic Information System (GIS) format, as static maps, and incorporated into a Geospatial Toolkit (GsT).

The GsT allows the user to examine the resource data in a geospatial context along with other key information relevant to renewable energy development, such as transportation networks, transmission corridors, existing power facilities, load centers, terrain conditions, and land use. GsT users can incorporate location-specific data directly into NREL's Micropower Optimization Model, HOMER, to design least-cost hybrid renewable power systems to meet electric-load requirements at the village level.

Please contact Shannon Cowlin at shannon.cowlin@nrel.gov for any additional information.

You also can visit our NREL Geospatial Toolkits Web site for more information.

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NREL/CD-6A2-45018 ● Revised September 2009