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Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
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| 15 Years of Power Outages | Kaggle | Grid disruption data including event that brought the disruption and impacts. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Access to Electricity | DataHub | A dataset that contains percentages of populations that have access to electricity. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Access |
| Africa electricity transmission network (AICD) | World Bank | Map of Africa's electricity grid (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| An Atlas of Electricity | Esri | Interactive mapping and statistical data of energy resources, supply, infrastructure, generation, and consumption in the U.S. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity |
| Average Electricity Retail Prices | Global Energy Institute | Data of the average electricity retail price in the US by state. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| CA ISO Price Map | California ISO | Day-ahead, 15 mins ahead, and real-time costs of the California ISO displayed in an interactive map. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| California Energy Data and Reports | California Energy Commission | Energy industry statistics and analysis for California including forecasts for electricity and natural gas demand for 10 years. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity |
| California ISO Interconnection Queue | CAISO | Resources related to CAISO's generator interconnection queue (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| California Power System Data | California ISO | Live, hour ahead, and day ahead forecasting for demand of the California ISO. Includes ability to search for supply, emissions, and pricing. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Cambium: U.S. Electricity Sector Scenario Model | NREL | U.S. electricity sector scenario modeling. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Coal Plant Tracker Map | Global Energy Monitor | A global display of coal power plants including their quantity, locations, and the filtering of specific criteria such as retired, permitted, operating, etc. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity |
| Commercial and Residential Hourly Load Profiles | OpenEI | The hourly load profile data for 16 commercial and residential building types in for all TMY3 locations in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Conventional Power Plants in Germany + Europe | Open Power System Data | Compilation of conventional power plants from Germany and EU countries. Includes locations, energy sources, capacity, and additional information; though not all information can be provided for each observation. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Crowdsourced power grid data/map | flosm.de | Power grid and energy infrastructure map based on OpenStreetMap (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Data for: Power system state estimation with extended power formulation | Mendeley | A dataset for power system state estimations with extended power formulations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) | U.K. Gov - Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | This database presents statistics on electricity from generation through to sales and includes statistics on generating capacity, fuel used for generation, load factors and efficiencies. It also includes a map showing the electricity network in the U.K. and the location of the main power stations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| E4ST Fast Predictor: Power system simulation model | Cornell University, Arizona State University, Resources for the Future | A simulation model to predict environmental impacts of electrical generation in the United States and select parts of Canada and Mexico. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| EES / ECO performance indicators (Russia) | Joint Stock Company System Operator of the Unified Energy System | Generation and consumption grid data in Russia. | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Electric Disturbance Events (OE-417) Annual Summaries | DOE | Datasets of US electrical disturbance events by year. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Grid Test Cases | Texas A&M University | List of datasets provided by Texas A&M pertaining to electric power grids. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution - Occupational Employment Statistics | Bureau of Labor Statistics | Data on occupational and employment statistics in the US for electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. (Licensing) | Dataset | General, Electricity |
| Electric power substations | Department of Homeland Security: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation - Level Data (HIFLD) | This dataset contains the locations and attributes of electric power substations that typically correlate to electric power transmission. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Losses | World Bank | Data and visuals for the percent of electricity output that results in electric power transmission and distribution losses, including global and country figures (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Electric Retail Service Territories | Department of Homeland Security: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation - Level Data (HIFLD) | This dataset contains information regarding electric power retail service territories or more specifically those that are responsible for the retail sale of electricity to local residential, commercial, or industrial customers. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure Imagery Dataset | Duke University | Benchmark dataset for automated detection of electricity transmission and distribution systems (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Transmission Lines | Department of Homeland Security: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation - Level Data (HIFLD) | This dataset contains the locations and attributes of electric power transmission lines including underground transmission lines where data was available. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electric Utility Industry Financial Data and Trend Analysis | Edison Electric Institute (EEI) | EEI represents a wide range of industry financial metrics and data covering the U.S. investor-owned electric utility companies. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Data Browser (Power Plants) | EIA | A map of the United States that provides visualization and data on power plants by state. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Electricity Generator Construction cost data | EIA | Construction cost figures and tables for all generators installed in 2018. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Statistics Information (Japan) | Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan | Energy statistics data for Japan. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity |
| Electricity Supply & Demand | North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) | Data for the North American bulk power system | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Supply and Demand | North American Electric Reliability Cooperation | Dataset of the North American electrical supply and demand for bulk power systems. | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative | Prayas Energy Group | An interactive map of India and Bangladesh that monitors live electricity supply. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| electricityMap | Tomorrow | This tool maps the carbon intensity by electricity consumption and its impact on climate. By using its forecasted marginal signals, smart devices can anticipate optimal charging times, leading to lower emissions and lower electricity costs. (Licensing) | Tool | Electricity, Environment |
| Electrification Access in Sub-Saharan Africa | Scientific Data | A dataset that contains information for the electrification of Africa based on nighttime light, population, and land cover data. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Access |
| Electrified mini-grid localities in Africa | African Association for Rural Electrification | A database to track electric mini-grids in Africa. | Platform | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Energy Data Explorer | Our World in Data | Interactive tool to explore energy and electricity consumption data by country and by source (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Energy Data Request Program | San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) | The data sets contain customer energy usage data by customer type (Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural) that has been aggregated by zip code for the state of California. | Dataset | Electricity, Fuel |
| 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 |
| ENTSO-E Transmission System Map | European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) | Illustration of the transmission system network for all members of the European Network of Transmission System Operators. The networks are NOT located at their real geographical location. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS): Power Plants | EPA | This is an EPA dataset constructed through GIS to provide data on power plants including locations and other attributes. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| ERCOT Data | Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) | Real-time and historical statistics surrounding ISO operations of the Texas region. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| ERCOT Generator Outage/Derate Visualization App (EGOVA) | Duke University | EGOVA can be used to examine the spatiotemporal distribution of outage/derate events in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) energy crisis. | Platform | Electricity |
| ERCOT Monthly Generator Interconnection Status Report | Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) | Page contains link to datafile containting the latest public interconnection information on planned generation resources in the ERCOT Region (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Ethiopia Electricity Transmission Network | World Bank Data Catalog | A dataset containing medium and high level transmission lines in Ethiopia. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Expanding electricity access to all in Nigeria: a spatial planning and cost analysis (Paper) | SpringerLink | A report with infographics for electricity access in Nigeria based on spatial planning and cost analysis. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Access |
| FERC Form 1: Electric Utility Cost, Energy Sales, Peak Demand, and Customer Count Data | FERC | A major financial and operating report for the US electricity industry (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Form 860M:Electricity Market Data | EIA | This is a report of the estimated capacity of generators in the United States reported at a monthly rate. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Form 861: Annual Electric Power Industry Report | EIA | Dataset of US electric power industry including peak load, generation, electric purchases, sales, revenues, customer counts, energy efficiency, demand response, net metering programs, and distributed generation capacity. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Form 923:Electricity Market Data | EIA | This dataset is a reporting of a survey form that collects information on electrical power data at a monthly and annual rate. Specifically, it includes electricity generations, fossil fuel stocks, fuel consumptions, etc. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Form EIA-860 Data | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) | The survey Form EIA-860 collects generator-level specific information about existing and planned generators and associated environmental equipment at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Form No. 714 - Annual Electric Balancing Authority Area and Planning Area Report | FERC | Data platform of annual electric balancing authority area reports for the US since 1993. | Dataset | Electricity |
| Generating Availability Data System (GADS) | North American Electric Reliability Cooperation | Data collection system that maintains monitors and tracks generating systems in North America. | Platform | Electricity |
| Global Energy Infrastructure Predictive Mapping | gridfinder | A map of the world that displays transmission lines, distribution, and electrification targets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Global Map of Coal Plants | CarbonBrief | A global map of coal power plants displaying generation figures both visually and graphically since 2000. Includes filters for closed plants, planned construction, and specifying scope of view. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity |
| Global Model of Electrical Transmission | A model predicting the locations of medium voltage grids in six selected African countries. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity | |
| 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 |
| Grid Emission Factors | Institute for Global Environmental Strategies | Emissions data from electrical generation at the global level for analysis and research. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Grid emissions intensity score/impact | Watttime | An interactive system that allows the user to see how clean the electrical grid is in the US, parts of Canada, the EU and Australia. | Platform | Electricity |
| GridKit: European and North-American extracts | University of Groningen | High voltage transmission network data for North America and Europe. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Hourly load curve estimates 2012 and 2015 | Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (India) | Data for hourly load curve estimations in the United States excluding the North-East. | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Interactive Map of U.S. Power Plants | Synapse Energy Economics | Interactive map of U.S. power plants and details, including ownership, generation capacity, annual emissions, etc. | Platform | Electricity |
| ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue | ISO New England (ISO-NE) | ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue, with filtering tool (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| List of power stations around the world | Wikipedia | This is a list of many power stations around the world by country or region. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| List of Power Stations in India | Wikipedia | Wikipedia article listing many power plants in India. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| List of the largest power stations in the United States | Wikipedia | This article lists the largest power stations in the United States, in terms of Terawatt-hours produced annually based on 2014 numbers. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Lists of the largest power stations in the world | Wikipedia | Lists of the largest power stations in the world (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Live Power Outage Map | PowerOutage.com | A map that provides the aggregate power outages in the US by state. It includes total and current customers affected. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Live Power Outage Map | National Outages and Mutual Aid | A map of the United States that displays live weather and power outage information by county. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Major Power Outage Risks In US | Purdue University | A dataset containing information on major power outages in the United States by state. It includes locations, regional climatic information, land-use info, electricity consumption patterns and economic characteristics. | Dataset | Electricity |
| Map of Power Plants - Coal, Gas, Nuclear Stations & Health, Safety, Pollution Issues | PowerPlant Maps | A global map of power plants by source used to generate power. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Mapped: How the US generates electricity | Carbonbrief | A map of the United States that displays electricity generation locations by type, size, efficiency, and state. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| MISO Generator Interconnection Queue | Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) | MISO's generator interconnection queue, including an interacitve queue map (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| National Electric Energy Data System (NEEDS) | EPA | A database that records data for generation units in the United States. Includes geographic, operations, air emissions, etc. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| National Generation Capacity | Open Power System Data | Aggregated generation of electricity in Europe broken down by country and technology, from 1990-2019 depending on specific country and tech. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| New Electric Generating Plants in Texas | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Various maps of the electrical grid and industry in Texas. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| New England Power System Data | ISO New England | Real-time power grid information for New England's six states provided in maps, charts, and datasets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| NYISO Interconnection Queue | New York ISO (NYISO) | NYISO interconnection process information, and contains link to datafile of NYISO interconnection queue (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Open Infrastructure Map | OpenInfraMap.org | An interactive global map that allows the user to visualize the "hidden" infrastructure of various power sources. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Outlook for Modern Cooking Energy Access in Central America | Figshare | Tables and figures demonstrating Central America's electricity market and demand. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Access |
| Pakistan Residential Electricity Consumption Dataset | Lahore University | A dataset of electricity consumption patterns for developing countries. Intended to help develop smart grids and better demand-side management. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| PJM data | PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) | Real-time and historical statistics surrounding ISO operations of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland state. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| PJM Data Miner | PJM | A database containing numerous datasets covering credit, generation, load, pricing, and system information for the PJM interconnection. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| PJM Interconnection Queue | Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Interconnection (PJM) | PJM's new services queue for electricity generation projects (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| PLEXOS-World 2015 Global Electricity Model | University College Cork (Ireland) | Global electricity model simulating the dispatch of over 30,000 existing power plants across 164 countries. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Power Data Portal | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | A searchable database regarding electric distribution and voltage phase angles. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Power Outage Data for US: IP Address Scans | Mendeley | A dataset to estimate power outages in the US in real time. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Power Outage Tracker | Generac | Map tracking current power outages across the US. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Power Plant Satellite Imagery Dataset | Duke University Energy Initiative | This dataset contains satellite imagery of 4,454 power plants within the United States. The imagery is provided at two resolutions: 1m (4-band NAIP imagery with near-infrared) and 30m (Landsat 8, pan sharpened to 15m). (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Power Profiler: US electricity generation/pollution tool | EPA | An interactive tool to calculate how clean electrical generation based off eGRID subregions, and searchable by ZIP codes. Includes emissions levels and energy sources as compared to the rest of the nation. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Power Reactor Information System | International Atomic Energy Agency | A database for global nuclear power including specifications and performance history. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Power Sector at a Glance (India) | Ministry of Power (India) | A breakdown of India's power sector providing information on sector generation rates, contributions of fuel, and demand and supply. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Fuel |
| Public Utility Data Liberation | Catalyst Cooperative | A database for open access data primarily for the United States electrical system. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Real-time data platform for ERCOT | Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ISO) | An interactive database that allows the user to view a number of metrics regarding ERCOT interconnections real-time and forecasted electric demand. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Real-time data platform for MISO | Midcontinent ISO (MISO) | Real-time and forecasted data display in maps, charts, and datasheets for the MISO interconnection. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Real-time data platform for SPP | Southwest Power Pool (ISO) | Real-time and forecasted data for the SPP ISO including graphics, figures, and datasets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |