Solar Irradiance and Meteorological Measurements for Milford Utah

Aggregating solar resource and meteorological measurements from the Solar Resource and Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRMAP) for Milford, Utah. It is produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in collaboration with industry partners to support solar power project deployment and model development. The specific row count, column count, and temporal range are not provided in the input.

Use Cases

• Analyze Global, Direct, and Diffuse irradiance measurements to model solar energy potential for power project siting.
• Correlate meteorological variables like Humidity and Pressure with solar irradiance data to improve forecasting models.
• Use Precipitation and other Meterological data to assess environmental impacts on solar panel performance and maintenance schedules.
• Validate and calibrate solar resource assessment models using high-quality Radiometer and Pyranometer measurements from the SOLRMAP project.

Strengths

• Data is produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, an authoritative source for renewable energy research.
• The project is a collaboration with industry, designed to provide high-quality data for financing, designing, and monitoring large-scale solar power projects.
• The dataset includes multiple specific measurement types as indicated by tags, such as Diffuse, Direct, and Global Irradiance, Humidity, and Precipitation.

Limitations

• The dataset's size, temporal coverage, and specific structure (e.g., row and column counts) are unknown, limiting initial assessment of its analytical scope.
• Data is provided in HTML format, which is not a standard structured data format (e.g., CSV, JSON) and may require significant parsing and extraction effort for analysis.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single location (Milford, Utah), which may not be representative of other regions.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Collection Method

High-quality measurements from the Solar Resource and Meteorological Assessment Project (SOLRMAP), involving instrument calibration, data acquisition, and quality assessment by NREL, with equipment and maintenance provided by industry partners.

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 2026-03-21, indicating active maintenance, though the actual data's time range is unspecified.

Geography

Milford, Utah, United States.