Economic Analysis
NREL provides economic analysis to promote energy security and help establish energy trade, energy market formation, and regional clean energy development.
As part of its integrated resource assessment approach, NREL provides resource maps that can be combined with geographical, demographic and economic data. Using this information, planners and developers can identify appropriate technologies and deployment options that will further market and economic development.
International Applications
NREL is working with the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Cooperation (SARI/E) program to promote energy security in South Asia. Through these activities, SARI/E facilitates more efficient regional energy resource utilization, works toward transparent and profitable energy practices, mitigates the environmental impacts of energy production, and increases regional access to energy. SARI/Energy countries include: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. NREL's focus in SARI/E has been in promoting clean energy development through removal of resource information barriers in participating SARI/E countries.
The links below provide high-resolution wind and solar resource maps and data products for Afghanistan and Pakistan, highlighting the energy resources available in their countries. The data were output in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and incorporated into a Geospatial Toolkit (GsT). The GsT allows the user to examine the resource data in a geospatial context along with other key information relevant to renewable energy development, such as transportation networks, transmission corridors, existing power facilities, load centers, terrain conditions, and land use.
- NREL Resource Maps and Toolkit for Pakistan
- NREL Resource Maps and Toolkit for Afghanistan
More Information
See international resource maps and atlases for more resources.
Also, see market and economic development publications for more information.
