Grant Buster is a member of the Advanced Data Analytics & Tools Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center. His work focuses on creating, managing, and distributing NREL’s state-of-the art renewable energy resource data. Grant is the software development lead for the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) and the Renewable Energy Potential Model (reV).

Research Interests

Renewable energy resource data

Data-driven software development

High-performance computing

Solar data and radiation transport

Spatiotemporal data analysis

Machine learning

Nuclear power systems

Education

M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Experience

Nuclear Risk Analyst, NuScale Power (2015–2018)