Assessing the socio-economic value of NASA gridded long-term and near-term data sets for the energy sector and other uses

NASA Applied Science Program has and continues to yield significant results for nation and international programs through Science ⇒ Applications transfer; Successes include supporting renewable energy and energy efficient technology optimization and providing data from the individual user to the worldwide scale.; The value of contributions to the renewable energy show wide spread impact, but are difficult to quantify - The Brattle Group has done a preliminary assessment of benefits of the SSE web portal through RETScreen - However, specific knowledge of benefits will have to be collected - Case studies showing example benefits have to be expanded - Strategies for assessing the macro benefit are also needed.