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Sun Spot One (SS1): San Luis Valley, Colorado (Data)

Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

A partnership with industry and U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to collect solar data to support future solar power generation in the United States. The measurement station monitors global horizontal, direct normal, and diffuse horizontal irradiance to define the amount of solar energy that hits this particular location. The solar measurement instrumentation is also accompanied by meteorological monitoring equipment to provide scientists with a complete picture of the solar power possibilities.

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 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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/8126
Data First Published 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z
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
Harvest Object Id 49d04b38-9253-4f68-9d58-925369fe3945
Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/17
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Program Code 019:008, 019:010
Projectnumber GO28308
Projecttitle
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash d958e0d94e644d0ca2167f4a91fdf0c567743ddad501237fc51e67b3e1a45b11
Source Schema Version 1.1

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