Simplify the NREL API Management for Users

[RHammond2]

Simplify the NREL API Credential Management

Proposed solution

One solution to manage this, would be to adopt a framework similar to the ECMWF ERA5 API:

• user instructions, which are hopefully easier than managing user bash profiles
• implementation infrastructure

Alternatives considered

Our discussion also talked about using bash profiles, but the easy flag there was this could be different depending zshell vs bash vs other, which becomes a bit of a hassle for HOPP to handle from a guidance standpoint.

Additional context

[johnjasa]

Note from Rob in a chat:
we could actually help people set their environment variables through the environment.yml
https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#setting-environment-variables