National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)
National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL)
- License
- Public domain
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- CSV, HDF
- Coverage
- Americas and parts of Asia and Africa
- Resolution
- 4 km
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 2 Nov 2026 · Update frequency Annual
Tags
Half-hourly and hourly solar irradiance and weather from satellite models since 1998, with an API and bulk HDF5 files on AWS.
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL)
- License
- Public domain
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- No
- Modification allowed
- See publisher
- Redistribution allowed
- See publisher
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- Global
- Type
- Raster
- Extent
- -180-6018060West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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