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.
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Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
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| Aerial imagery object identification dataset for building and road detection, and building height estimation | Duke University Energy Initiative | For 25 locations across 9 U.S. cities, this dataset provides (1) high-resolution aerial imagery; (2) annotations of over 40,000 building footprints (OSM shapefiles) as well as road polylines; and (3) topographical height data (LIDAR). This dataset can be used as ground truth to train computer vision and machine learning algorithms for object identification and analysis, in particular for building detection and height estimation, as well as road detection. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Boston's Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance | City of Boston Environment Department | A variety of data including an interactive map providing energy and water metrics for all city owned buildings, commercial buildings more than 35,000 square feet, and residential buildings more than 35,000 square feet or more than 35 units in Boston, MA (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Building Performance Database | DOE | A dataset covering the energy related statistics of commercial and residential buildings. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Building Performance Database (BPD) | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Dataset of information about the energy-related characteristics of commercial and residential buildings. The website allows users to explore the data across real estate sectors and regions, and compare various physical and operational characteristics. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Building-Level fully labeled Electricity Disaggregation (BLUED) | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | Building electricity consumption dataset that contains current and voltage measurements. | Dataset | Building |
| California Building Energy Benchmarking Program | State of California | Interactive map providing energy benchmarking data for commercial and multifamily buildings more than 50,000 square feet, and all state agencies in California (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Commercial and Residential Hourly Load Profiles for all TMY3 Locations in the U.S. | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | This dataset contains hourly load profile data for 16 commercial building types and residential buildings. Hourly load profiles are available for over all TMY3 locations in the U.S. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Database for Energy Consumption of Commercial Building(s) | Japan Sustainable Building Consortium | Database of buildings surveyed in Japan related to numerous attributes, including energy consumption (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Electricity Consumption & Occupancy (ECO) | Distributed Systems Group | The ECO data set is a comprehensive data set for non-intrusive load monitoring and occupancy detection research. It was collected in 6 Swiss households over a period of 8 months. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Energy Efficiency Dataset | UC Irvine | Dataset looking at energy efficiency of buildings by comparing heating and cooling loads on various building parameters. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building, Efficiency |
| EnergyPlus (E+) | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | This is a whole building energy simulation program to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings. (Licensing) | Tool | Building |
| Fort Collins Building Energy and Water Scoring | City of Fort Collins | Interactive map providing energy and water performance metrics for commercial, multifamily, and city owned buildings more than 20,000 square feet in Fort Collins, CO (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Getting to Zero Buildings Database | New Buildings Institute | A database to track, analyze, and promote zero carbon buildings across North America. | Platform | Building |
| Green Building Information Gateway | US Green Building Council | A tool to help visualize and report on LEED certified green building productions across the world. (Licensing) | Platform | Building, Efficiency |
| GREEND Electrical Energy Dataset | Lakeside Labs | GREEND is an energy dataset containing power measurements collected from multiple households in Austria and Italy. It provides detailed energy profiles on a per-device basis with a sampling rate of 1 Hz. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| I-BLEND, a campus-scale commercial and residential buildings electrical energy dataset (India) | Nature | A dataset spanning 52 months of electrical energy from commercial and residential buildings of an academic institute in India. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| National Residential Efficiency Measures Database | NREL | A database constructed to assist in modeling the most cost-effective way to retrofit a home to be more energy efficient. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building, Efficiency |
| NYC Energy & Water Performance Map | NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability | Interactive map providing energy use, water use, and emissions datas for private buildings over 50,000 square feet (25,000 square feet since 2017) and public sector buildings over 10,000 square feet in New York City, NY (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Pecan Street Dataport | University of Texas | This database includes minute-interval appliance-level customer electricity use from nearly 1,000 houses and apartments in Pecan Street's multi-state residential electricity use research, as well as ERCOT market operations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Philadelphia Building Energy Benchmarking | City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability | A variety of data including an interactive map providing energy benchmarking data for commercial and residential buildings more than 50,000 square feet in Philadelphia, PA (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Plug Load Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID) | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | PLAID includes short voltage and current measurements sampled at 30 kHz from 11 different appliance types present in more than 60 households in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Portland Commercial Building Energy Performance Map | City of Portland | Interactive map providing energy data for commercial buildings in Portland, OR | Platform | Building |
| Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) | The RECS data includes energy characteristics on the housing unit, usage patterns, household demographics, energy costs and usage for heating, cooling, appliances and other end uses. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| ResStock | NREL | Dataset that describes timeseries energy end-use consumption of the US residential building stock. | Dataset | Building |
| San Diego Building Energy Benchmarking | City of San Diego | Interactive map providing energy data for commercial, industrial, and large residential buildings in San Diego, CA (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Seattle Energy Benchmarking | City of Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment | A set of analyses including an interactive map providing energy benchmarking data for commercial, industrial, and large residential buildings in Seattle, WA | Platform | Building |
| Smart* Dataset for Sustainability | UMass Amherst | Data collected for home efficiency, includes electrical, environmental, and operational information for different homes. | Dataset | Building, Efficiency |
| Solar power estimator tool | Google Project Sunroof | Provides the user the opportunity to estimate the cost and potential benefit of installing solar panels at a particular address, also provides an overview of strong solar potential areas. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy, Building |
| The Almanac of Minutely Power dataset Version 2 (AMPds2) | Simon Fraser University | The AMPds2 aims to help researchers test their models, systems, algorithms, or prototypes on real house data. It includes environmental and utility billing data for cost analysis. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) | The CBECS is a national sample survey that collects information on the stock of U.S. commercial buildings, including their energy-related building characteristics and energy usage data (consumption and expenditures). (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| The Controlled On/Off Loads Library (COOLL) | University of Orléans, France | COOLL is a dataset of high-sampled electrical current and voltage measurements representing individual appliances consumption. 42 appliances (mainly controllable) of 12 types were measured at a 100 kHz sampling frequency. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| The Rainforest Automation Energy Dataset (RAE) | Simon Fraser University | This paper presents the Rainforest Automation Energy (RAE) dataset to help smart grid researchers test their algorithms that make use of smart meter data. In addition to power data, environmental and sensor data from the house’s thermostat is included. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Tracebase Dataset | Technische Universität Darmstadt | The tracebase data set is a collection of power consumption traces of electrical appliances which can be used in energy analytics research. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| US Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) | EIA | Dataset of US commercial buildings energy consumption rate surveys. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| US Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) | EIA | Survey conducted to determine US residential energy consumption rates. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| WHO Household Energy Database | World Health Organization | Data that monitors household energy use for 157 countries collected both by census and surveys. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building |
| Zero Tool | Architecture 2030 | A tool to compare building designs and energy use intensity with other buildings of similar design in an effort to better design our buildings to improve energy intensity use. | Platform | Building, Efficiency |