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United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential

Renewable energy technical potential as defined in this report represents the achievable energy generation of a particular technology given system performance, topographic limitations, environmental, and land-use constraints. The data presented here provide renewable energy potential by state and by category, there is an option for download in CSV or Excel format. The primary benefit of assessing technical potential is that it establishes an upper-boundary estimate of development potential. It is important to understand that there are multiple types of potential: resource, technical, economic, and market - each seen in the "Key Assumptions" resource below.

For updated data on renewable energy resource potential and siting considerations please see the "Siting Lab" link below.
Organization: Department of Energy
Last updated: 2025-10-08T23:08:57.903515
Tags: biopower, csp, data, energy, geothermal, hydropower, hydrothermal, potential, potential-energy, processed-data, re, re-potential, renewable, renewable-energy, rooftop, tech-potential, technical, united-states, us-energy, us-potential, utility-scale, water, wind

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United States Renewable Energy Technical Potential

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CREATE TABLE united_states_renewable_energy_technical_potential (
  "unnamed_0" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 0,
  "urbanutilityscalepv_gwh" BIGINT,
  "urbanutilityscalepv_gw" BIGINT,
  "urbanutilityscalepv_km2" BIGINT,
  "ruralutilityscalepv_gwh" BIGINT,
  "ruralutilityscalepv_gw" BIGINT,
  "ruralutilityscalepv_km2" BIGINT,
  "rooftoppv_gwh" VARCHAR,
  "rooftoppv_gw" BIGINT,
  "csp_gwh" BIGINT,
  "csp_gw" BIGINT,
  "csp_km2" BIGINT,
  "onshorewind_gwh" BIGINT,
  "onshorewind_gw" BIGINT,
  "onshorewind_km2" BIGINT,
  "offshorewind_gwh" VARCHAR,
  "offshorewind_gw" VARCHAR,
  "offshorewind_km2" VARCHAR,
  "biopowersolid_gwh" BIGINT,
  "biopowersolid_gw" BIGINT,
  "biopowersolid_bdt" BIGINT,
  "biopowergaseous_gwh" BIGINT,
  "biopowergaseous_gw" BIGINT,
  "biopowergaseous_tonnes_ch4" BIGINT,
  "geothermalhydrothermal_gwh" BIGINT,
  "geothermalhydrothermal_gw" BIGINT,
  "egsgeothermal_gwh" VARCHAR,
  "egsgeothermal_gw" VARCHAR,
  "hydropower_gwh" BIGINT,
  "hydropower_gw" BIGINT,
  "hydropower_countofsites" BIGINT
);