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Energy Data Resources
| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | The AFDC provides data and tools to help transportation decision makers find ways to reach their energy and economic goals through the use of alternative and renewable fuels, advanced vehicles, and other fuel-saving measures. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment, Transportation |
| AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT) | EPA | A tool designed to allow the user to assess how energy policy in energy efficiency and renewable energy generation impacts emissions at the federal, state, and local levels. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| C-ROADS World Climate Tool | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | A simulator that maps carbon emissions and temperature rises over time based on the reductions in emissions for certain countries. Allows the user to control the scenarios. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Carbon Capture Projects Map | Third Way | A global map of carbon capture projects that includes project type, status, and country specifics. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Carbon Monitor: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data | Carbon Monitor | Interactive infographics that explore CO2 emissions by country over time. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Clean Air Markets Program Data | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | CAMPD provides data on emissions, compliance, allowance, and facilities attributes data as part of federal air quality programs. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment, Emissions |
| Climate TRACE | Climate TRACE | Database and interactive map of location-specific greenhouse gas emissions across the world (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment, Electricity |
| ClimateScope | BloombergNEF | Data on clean energy investment and national energy supply mixes (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Coal Ash Contamination Map | Earth Justice | A map that displays the locations of coal ash contamination in the United States as well as information on clean-ups and impacts. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability | World Bank | A climate action planning tool to help cities determine where best to invest funding. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| Data for: Ecological Footprint, Hydropower Energy Consumption, and Economic Growth Nexus in the Top Six Hydropower Energy-Consuming Countries | Mendeley | A dataset presenting the ecological impacts, economic growth, and energy consumption for hydropower in the top 6 hydropower consuming countries. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| Data Portal for Cities | Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy | A global searchable database for city-based statistics on energy activity and emissions data. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment |
| EGrid: Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database | EPA | A map of the United States that allows for the visualization of CO2 emissions by eGRID subregion. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity, Environment |
| Electricity Maps | Electricity Maps | A map of the globe that displays carbon intensity by electrical generation for production and consumption in select locations and countries. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | eGRID is a comprehensive source of data on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Environment |
| En-ROADS Climate Change Solutions Simulator | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | An interactive simulator that provides forecasting of carbon emissions and global temperatures based on different scenarios and methods of reducing our emissions. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| ENACT - Energy Access Tool | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) | A tool to visualize various scenarios needed to meet goals within multiple categories including electricity access, emissions, electricity demands, health impacts, etc. Applied to Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Pacific Asia. (Licensing) | Platform | Access, Environment |
| Energy Resources Program | US Geological Survey | A collection of datasets obtained by the USGS pertaining to environmental and energy topics. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment |
| Environmental Insights Explorer | A resource that models a cities emission, performs analysis, and establishes strategies to reduce emissions. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment | |
| European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) | European Environment Agency (EEA) | Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| Geospatial Energy Mapper | Argonne National Laboratory | Geospatial Energy Mapper provides data and analysis tools for planning energy infrastructure in a geographic context for the United States (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Environment |
| GID-Power Emission Database | Global Infrastructure Emission Database | Global carbon dioxide and air pollutant emissions data for fossil fuel- and biomass-burning power-generating plants (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Global Carbon Grid | Global Infrastructure Emission Database | Carbon dioxide emissions maps for six source sectors in 2019, which includes power, industry, residential, transport, shipping, and aviation (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Global Climate Policy and Progress Tracking | Climate Action Tracker | A database to construct visualizations and form datasets comparing countries of indicators across the world. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Global Power Plant Database | World Resources Institute (WRI) | The Global Power Plant Database is an open source database of power plants around the world. Each power plant is geolocated and entries contain information on plant capacity, generation, ownership, and fuel type. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Environment |
| Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator | EPA | A tool to help translate various daily emissions levels into understandable levels of greenhouse gas emissions. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program | EPA | Data of greenhouse gas emissions data reported by large emission sites. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Industrial Energy and GHG Emissions Dashboard | Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (India) | Graphs and visualizations of India's energy consumption and GHG emissions by state and energy source. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment |
| Integrated Environmental Control Model (IECM) | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | IECM is a computer-modeling program that performs a systematic cost and performance analyses of emission control equipment at coal-fired power plants. (Licensing) | Tool | Electricity, Environment |
| Map of Global CO2 Emissions Outputs | Global Carbon Atlas | A map of global CO2 emissions by country or region that can be separated into emission source. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| National Surveys on Energy and Environment | University of Michigan | A database of climate change, energy, and environmental datasets. (Licensing) | Dataset | General, Environment |
| RAE: Rainforest Automation Energy Dataset | Harvard Dataverse | A dataset developed to help smart grid researchers test algorithms for smart meter data. Includes power data, environmental, and sensor data. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Environment |
| State Climate Policy Map | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions | Maps of the United States that depict differing climate policies by state. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| Systems Change Lab | World Resources Institute (WRI) | Platform that tracks more than 70 transformational shifts across nearly every system, including the power system, to limit global warming and other challenges (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Environment, Policy |
| The Carbon Footprint of Household Energy Use in the United States | University of Michigan | Data related to creating model outputs on US household carbon footprints (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| Transportation Energy Databook (TEDB) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | The TEDB represents an assembly and display of statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and presents data on other factors that influence transportation energy use. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment, Transportation |
| US Coal Mining Locations | EIA (via USGS) | A dataset containing the locations of United States coal mines. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| Utility Carbon Reduction Tracker | Smart Electric Power Alliance | A map of the United States that displays utility companies and their individual promises to reduce emissions by 2050. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
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