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Offshore cable analysis with NREL evaluating conflict zones with marine renewable energy
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3. Collect spatial data #3

Closed bbest closed 7 years ago

bbest commented 7 years ago

Collect best available spatial data, similar to the U.S. west coast preliminary work:

Data Source Website
Offshore Cables National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://marinecadastre.gov/data/
Bathymetry General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/
U.S. Shoreline NOAA http://shoreline.noaa.gov/data/datasheets/medres.html
Tide Georgia Tech Research Corporation http://www1.eere.energy.gov/water/pdfs/1023527.pdf
Wave Electric Power Research Institute http://www1.eere.energy.gov/water/pdfs/mappingandassessment.pdf
Wind (100m height) AWS Truepower, LLC for windNavigator® http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/windmaps/

Newer renewable energy datasets from NREL may be provided.

bbest commented 7 years ago

HI @lkilcher,

Can you please point me to the latest GIS-friendly download of these NREL datasets to characterize renewable energy potential in the report (at varying levels of constraints)?

Data Source Website
Tide Georgia Tech Research Corporation http://www1.eere.energy.gov/water/pdfs/1023527.pdf
Wave Electric Power Research Institute http://www1.eere.energy.gov/water/pdfs/mappingandassessment.pdf
Wind AWS Truepower, LLC for windNavigator® http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/windmaps/

The above links point to PDFs and not full downloads. Do you recommend the following NREL data sources for characterizing different marine renewable energy potentials?

NREL GIS Data - Marine & Hydrokinetic Data

nrel.gov/gis/data_mhk.html

Download Data Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_WGS_1984

Coverage Zipped Shapefiles Last Updated Metadata
Wave Power Density Zip 3.4 MB 10/20/2011 Wave Power Density.xml
Wave Energy Period Zip 2.4 MB 10/20/2011 Wave Energy Period.xml
Significant Wave Height Zip 2.3 MB 10/20/2011 Wave Significant Height.xml
Wave Hindcast Zip 1.4 MB 10/20/2011 Wave Hindcast.xml
Wave Study Depth Zip 100.8 KB 10/20/2011 Wave Depth.xml

Access the full technical report here: Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource.

NREL GIS Data - Wind Data

nrel.gov/gis/data_wind.html

90-Meter Offshore (90-meter height above surface) Annual average offshore wind speed at a 90-meter height. To learn more, please see Offshore Wind Report (2010)PDF.

Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_WGS_1984 For these five datasets, we've included the option to view the data in Google Earth. To launch this capability, click on the kmz link in the KMZ Files field. Other KMZ links are available through our MapSearch Tool.

Coverage Zipped Shapefiles Last Updated Metadata KMZ Files
Atlantic Coast 90m Windspeed Offshore Wind Zip 19.7. MB 06/26/2012 Atlantic Coast.htm Atlantic Coast 90m.kmz
Great Lakes 90m Windspeed Offshore Wind Zip 11.8 MB 08/23/2010 Great Lakes.htm Great Lakes 90m.kmz
Gulf of Mexico 90m Windspeed Offshore Wind Zip 4.8 MB 08/23/2010 Gulf of Mexico.htm Gulf of Mexico 90m.kmz
Hawaii 90m Windspeed Offshore Wind Zip 4.2 MB 08/23/2010 Hawaii.htm Hawaii 90m.kmz
Pacific Coast 90m Windspeed Offshore Wind Zip 9.4 MB 08/23/2010 Pacific Coast.htm Pacific Coast 90m.kmz

NREL GIS Tools

nrel.gov/gis/tools.html

Some of these tools point to more refined or alternate data sets.

Wind Prospector

https://maps.nrel.gov/wind-prospector

Wind Power Class (Exclusions Applied)

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This layer represents the annual average wind resource data used in the Renewable Electricity Futures Study (http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re_futures)... Standard exclusions were applied to eliminate protected areas (wilderness, wildlife refuges, parks, etc.), incompatible land use (wetlands, urban areas), and other criteria from the available wind resource.

Pacific Monthly Offshore Wind Speed

Annual, Jan - Dec

Site Analysis

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MHK Atlas

https://maps.nrel.gov/mhk-atlas/

This never finished Loading for me

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Web Map Services

Also great to see WFS, WMS, TIMS, WMS-C and WMST OGC web services through NREL GeoServer.

Renewable Energy Economic / Technical Potential

lkilcher commented 7 years ago

@bbest I've inquired on why the MHK Atlas is not working. I'll let you know when it's fixed. I do have resource data for wave and tidal, but I'm hoping we can just grab it from the MHK Atlas when that is back online. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by 'GIS-friendly'. I assume this means public--at a minimum--but does it also mean: shapefile, or CSV, or SQL database of some kind, or ?

@pbeiter can confirm whether the OSW data listed above is the most up to date available.

lkilcher commented 7 years ago

@bbest

OK. The MHK Atlas is back online; sorry about that. You can download the wave data through that portal (click the down-arrow next to the layer).

The tidal data is too big to download through that interface, and I don't think it is currently publicly available anywhere else. I'll work on getting you a public link.

bbest commented 7 years ago

Great, thanks @lkilcher! The MHK Atlas looks good.

Wave Power Density

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The "?" popup continues:

For complete details regarding this study please read the full report, available here: Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource.

This link (http://en.openei.org/datasets/node/884)) however redirects to only to the generic catalog (http://en.openei.org/datasets/dataset), but is presumably meant to go to:

which is preferable in having data files over the duplicative pdf report only "dataset":

The shapefile download from here is the same as the table I previously listed from the NREL GIS - Marine & Hydrokinetic Data page:

Coverage Zipped Shapefiles Last Updated Metadata
Wave Power Density Zip 3.4 MB 10/20/2011 [Wave Power Density.xml]

Yes, by "GIS-friendly" I meant something mappable (shapefile, KML, CSV, geodatabase, etc) vs an image (without georeferencing or value attribute table) or pdf that are found elsewhere on NREL.

Tidal Power Density

Yep, I see the disclaimer:

Annual Tidal Power Density Downloading the entire dataset through the map interface is not possible due to size restrictions.

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Thanks for looking into downloadable, public version.

lkilcher commented 7 years ago

The "?" popup continues:

Hmmm... I don't have that problem on Chrome.

This link (http://en.openei.org/datasets/node/884)) however redirects to only to the generic catalog (http://en.openei.org/datasets/dataset), but is presumably meant to go to:

Where did you find the node/884 link?

bbest commented 7 years ago

Hi @lkilcher,

Super minor, but probably good and easy to fix. Here's how I got there:

  1. Visit https://maps.nrel.gov/mhk-atlas

  2. In Data Layers, expand Marine & Hdyrokinetic Atlas > Wave Power Density > WEF Annual (one of the default layers checked on), and click on the "?" icon to the right of the layer, which gives you the following text:

    Wave Power Density Wave power density is the calculated kilowatts per meter of wave crest width at any given water depth. Equation A-6 of Appendix A in the full report.

    Source:The Wave Energy Resource Assessment project is a joint venture between NREL, EPRI, and Virginia Tech. EPRI is the prime contractor, Virginia Tech is responsible for development of the models and estimating the wave resource, and NREL serves as an independent validator and also develops the final GIS-based display of the data.

    For complete details regarding this study please read the full report, available here: Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource

    Temporal Info: February 2005 - July 2009 Bathymetric Impacts on Resource Assessment Bathymetric effects...

  3. The link for the text Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource is http://en.openei.org/datasets/node/884.

Hopefully that clears up this from previous...