Historical Weather, Load, Wind, and Solar Data for the Salt River Project

We created and curated a dataset of historical (1980-2019) hourly meteorology, load, wind, and solar data for the Salt River Project (SRP) region. The data was created by PNNL's GODEEEP project. Each row in the dataset is a single hour and each column is a variable. All meteorological variables are spatially-averaged over the SRP service territory. The variables and their units are as follows:

1. "Time_UTC"; Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); Time of day.
2. "T2"; Fahrenheit; 2-m air temperature.
3. "Q2"; kg/kg; 2-m water vapor mixing ratio.
4. "SWDOWN"; W/m^2; Downwelling shortwave radiative flux at the surface.
5. "GLW"; W/m^2; Downwelling longwave radiative flux at the surface.
6. "WSPD"; m/s; 10-m wind speed.
7. "Scaled_2019_Load"; MWh; Simulated hourly demand for electricity that is scaled to 2019 levels of annual energy. This load estimate does not account for historical changes in population and economics within the SRP service territory. It is included to make it easier to isolate weather impacts on load without having to consider long-term changes.
8. "Load"; MWh; Simulated hourly demand for electricity.
9. "Agua_Fria_Solar_Capacity"; N/A; Solar capacity factor for the SRP Agua Fria project with plant configurations taken from the EIA-860 database.
10. "Phoenix_Solar_Capacity"; N/A; Solar capacity factor for hypothetical solar plants derived using the grid cell nearest to Phoenix, AZ.
11. "Flagstaff_Solar_Capacity"; N/A; Solar capacity factor for hypothetical solar plants derived using the grid cell nearest to Flagstaff, AZ.
12. "Phoenix_Wind_Capacity"; N/A; Wind capacity factor for hypothetical 80-m plants derived using the grid cell nearest to Phoenix, AZ.
13. "Flagstaff_Wind_Capacity"; N/A; Wind capacity factor for hypothetical 80-m plants derived using the grid cell nearest to Flagstaff, AZ.