This fact sheet outlines the basic overview features, purpose, and additional information for the State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform. SLOPE is a collaboration between nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) technology offices and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), integrates and delivers jurisdictionally resolved potential and projection data on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation in an easy-to-access online platform to enable data-driven state and local energy planning and decision-making.

The State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform is a tool to enable more data-driven state and local energy planning by integrating dozens of distinct sources of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and (coming in 2020) sustainable transportation data and analyses.

The State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform is a free, easy-to-use online platform to support data-driven state and local energy and decarbonization planning.

The State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform is a free and easy-to-access online platform that helps energy planners at state and local levels make data-driven decisions to achieve their communities' energy goals.

The State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform is an easy-to-access online platform to support data-driven state and local energy and decarbonization planning.

This is a very brief description of the State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) platform and State and Local Energy Profiles datasets to be included in the Tools issue of the Colorado chapter of the American Planning Association newsletter.

Wide-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change. Many communities have ambitious clean energy goals with targets for locally generated renewable energy. To inform state and local clean energy planning, analysts from the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used data from NREL's State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) platform to compare annual technical generation potential of renewable energy technologies to modeled electricity consumption in every county of the contiguous United States. Annual costs were calculated to produce a 20% share of electricity consumed annually from each technology to examine localized cost effectiveness of a diversified mix of generation sources. For example, combining distributed and utility-scale wind and solar generation can offset the need for storage and nonintermittent fossil resources to achieve high deployment of renewables. This county-level analysis provides insight into where localized renewable energy generation could cost-effectively match annual electricity consumption.