Funding Program: SuNLaMP
SunShot Subprogram: Soft Costs
Location: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
SunShot Award Amount: $1,540,672

This project supports hundreds of new collaborations and partnerships for startups and growing companies through effective dissemination of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) data, models, and tools. Specifically, this project will create new relationships within the industry to shape priorities on tool enhancements and define opportunities for co-development of tools, such as the Utility Rate Database and OpenPV.

Approach

The research team will create a solar data working group to combine input from existing market users with input from four new user groups: software developers, incubators, start-ups, and utilities. These users will determine needs for data collections, exchange, tools, and sustainable maintenance and enhancement of existing tools.

Innovation

Development of solar models, data, and tools will enable research and analysis within the public and private sectors and lead to the advancement of both established market players and new entrants. Creating vibrant relationships with users from across the industry will shape new approaches to public access to NREL-developed resources and enable new approaches to joint development and deployment of digital resources.