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    • Solar Futures Study Databook

    Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

    The Solar Futures Study explores pathways for solar energy to drive deep decarbonization of the U.S. electric grid and considers how further electrification could decarbonize the broader energy system. This workbook contains data behind most figures in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Futures Study. Data are not provided for figures with data labels and certain figures generated with larger data sets. These data will be made available upon request.

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

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8233
    Data First Published 2021-10-28T01:29:10Z
    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/178
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Program Code 019:002, 019:000, 019:008, 019:003
    Projectnumber GO102021
    Projecttitle Solar Futures Study
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5899f4ac2b542af2ba746be51af231d84dee8a8320138c34e791de368ad1e239
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