Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Energy Data Resources
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Energy Data Resources

This collection of energy data sources and tools for data analysis was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Award No. 1937137, a collaboration among the World Resources Institute, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Electric Power Research Institute, and Duke University. We do not endorse or provide any guarantees about the data or information listed below.

Title Publisher Description Type Topic
Energy Statistics Database United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) Comprehensive energy statistics for UN countries on the production, trade, conversion and final consumption of primary and secondary; conventional and non-conventional; and new and renewable sources of energy. (Licensing) Discoverability Service General
EnergyData.info World Bank Group Data Repository of 879 datasets across 193 countries, including energy access, transmission and distribution, renewable energy, and resource assessment data (Licensing) Discoverability Service Electricity
EnerMaps Open Data Management Tool (Beta) EnerMaps Data management tool enabling users to search through a data repository of open source energy data that is reusable (Licensing) Discoverability Service General
Eurostat Energy Database European Commission This repository provides consolidated information on various statistics at European level which can be compared and analyzed amidst various European nations.  (Licensing) Discoverability Service General
GapMinder Data Gapminder Foundation Gapminder serves as a vast data repository with global statistics on various energy and environment indicators like CO2 emissions per person and consumption details of various renewable and non-renewable forms of energy. (Licensing) Discoverability Service General
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) NREL develops datasets, maps, models, and tools for the analysis of energy and energy efficiency technologies. (Licensing) Discoverability Service Renewable Energy
Resource Watch World Resources Institute (WRI) It features hundreds of data sets on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens and allows users to visualize challenges from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more. (Licensing) Discoverability Service General
World Bank Energy Data World Bank World Bank DataBank containing various energy consumption and investment datasets, at the global- and country-level (Licensing) Discoverability Service Electricity