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Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)

Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

The Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and DeploYment of Solar (STEADy Solar) is a database and mapping tool designed to promoting clean energy investments for low-income communities across the United States. The tool indicates locations that may be eligible for the Investment Tax Credit bonus adders defined in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and combines this information with demographics, social vulnerability, solar technical potential, solar economics (modeled net present value), and building counts by use-type. It can be used by states, municipalities, community-based organizations, developers, and researchers to identify sites where solar projects may be economical and where federal incentives may be available to support equitable adoption of solar.Specific values include: Areas eligible for the Energy Communities Tax Credit Bonus Program (including brownfield site counts)Areas eligible for the Low Income Communities Bonus Credit Program (including Tribal Lands, and covered affordable housing project counts)Areas categorized as disadvantaged by Justice40Commercial and Residential Solar economics characterized by the Net Present Value and Simple Payback PeriodTotal Population, Race, and EthnicityMedian Household Income, Poverty rate, Household TenureSocial VulnerabilityCount of buildings, developable rooftop solar capacity (in kWdc) and estimated annual generation potential (in kWh) on four building types: Government General Services, Government Emergency Response, Grade Schools, and Colleges/Universities. The linked report describes the STEADy dataset metadata and presents high level insights from the data. The downloadable and formatted excel dataset makes it easy for users to gain insights for their locations. Supporting .csv and shapefiles provide users with the full data to run their own analyses on equitable solar siting.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from OpenEI data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8287
Data First Published 2024-05-24T20:07:25Z
Data Last Modified 2026-03-12T18:10:31Z
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 019:20
Metadata Context https://openei.org/data.json
Metadata Catalog ID https://openei.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/238
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Program Code 019:000, 019:008
Projectnumber 32954
Projecttitle Solar Energy Innovation Network (SEIN)
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 3d62c0096ec82435d97ec4fc1b9d305f9396efeea19847b59fab711df607b258
Source Schema Version 1.1

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