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nrel.dev.api

R package to access data from National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) developer network.

Lifecycle: experimental CRAN status

Data availability by collections and, geographic scope

The goal of nrel.dev.api is to provide R-native access to NREL’s renewable energy sources data-sets using the NREL Developer Network API.

Installation

You can install the development version of nrel.dev.api from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("energyRt/nrel.dev.api")

Example

Register at https://developer.nrel.gov/ to get API key for your email address.

library(nrel.dev.api)

# to save your credentials (do once)
set_nrel_api_key(nrel.api.email = "YOUR_EMAIL", nrel.api.key = "YOUR_NREL_API_KEY")
# to retrieve
x <- get_nrel_api_email()
x
get_nrel_api_key(invisible = FALSE)
# get url address by the dataset name
get_nrel_url("india-wind") 
# fetch/download the data
x <- fetch_nrel_data(
  lon = 75.36621, lat = 24.72687,
  api_url = get_nrel_url("india-wind"),
  attributes = "windspeed_40m,windspeed_80m,windspeed_100m,windspeed_120m",
  interval = 15,
  names = "2014")
x

References

  1. NREL developer network // https://developer.nrel.gov/
  2. Alternative API in Python // https://pypi.org/project/nrel-dev-api/