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Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geothermal Database | National Geothermal Data System | A database of geothermal data in the United States covering a wide array of topics including chemical analysis and hotspot locations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Geothermal Power Database | International Geothermal Association | Global geothermal power generation data by country. Includes direct use and power generation information as well as a visualization through a global map. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Geothermal Prospector | NREL | An interactive map of the United States that provides a complete overview of the country's geothermal prospects including topographic/environmental information to infrastructure details. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Geothermal Prospector | NREL | A map of the United States that provides layering of information surrounding geothermal energy including potential, environmental conditions, geographical considerations, and governmental boundaries. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Geothermal Resource Data | NREL | Tools, maps, and data that provide information into geothermal energy in the US. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Getting to Zero Buildings Database | New Buildings Institute | A database to track, analyze, and promote zero carbon buildings across North America. | Platform | Building |
| 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 Atlas for Renewable Energy Maps | IRENA | An interactive website to search through numerous maps containing natural resource availability throughout the world. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 Electric Vehicle Outlook 2021 | IEA | A report that provides EV data both with current status and projected statistics for the globe (Licensing) | Platform | Transportation |
| Global energy information data overview | IRENA | Global data and statistics on renewable energy capacity, generation, and energy balances. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Global Energy Infrastructure Predictive Mapping | gridfinder | A map of the world that displays transmission lines, distribution, and electrification targets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Global Energy Outlook | Resources for the Future | An interactive graph that displays global energy outlooks depending on energy type, energy sector, country or region and year. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Global Energy Resources database | Shell | A database that offers visualizations for the world's potential for each major energy source including renewables by country. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Global Energy Storage Database | DOE | A database that contains energy storage projects and policies listed under the DOE, (Licensing) | Platform | Storage |
| Global Geothermal Power Plant Map | ThinkGeoEnergy | A map of the world that displays geothermal power plant locations. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Global geothermal power plants data | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | An EU developed dataset that provides the locations worldwide of existing geothermal hotspots including highlights of the report's findings. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Global Hydropower Database | Figshare | A database of hydropower plants and their generation capacity in 134 countries. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 Natural Gas Atlas | Snam | A map of existing natural gas pipelines around the world. It includes specification into each region. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| Global Nighttime Lights | WRI | A specific dataset within the Resource watch collection that provides an overview of light use at night across the world. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Global offshore renewable map | 4COffshore | A map the world offering specific locations of offshore renewable energy generation sites. It includes specific information on the site once selected including owner, developer, and capacity. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Global Oil & Gas Features Database | DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information | A database of oil and gas infrastructure data (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| 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 |
| Global Renewable Energy Demand by Sector | IRENA | Two tools that provide renewable energy consumption by country, technology, and year, as well as predicted future trends. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Global solar resource distribution | Global Solar Atlas | An interactive global map that provides solar potential with specific measurements available at chosen locations. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Global Transportation Demand Development with Impacts on the Energy Demand and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Climate-Constrained World | LUT University (Finland) | Global energy and emissions data for the transportation sector. (Licensing) | Dataset | Transportation |
| Global wind power market intelligence platform/dataset | The Wind Power | Database containing information on the number, capacity, and further details on the world's wind turbines. Data can be broken down by country or windfarm. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Global wind resource distribution | Global Wind Atlas | An interactive global map that provides wind speeds and allows for the specification of location and the layering of additional metrics. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gridded Night Lights (India) | NOAA/SHRUG | Collection of shared datasets pertaining specifically to India including their use of lights at night over the years. | Platform | General |
| GridKit: European and North-American extracts | University of Groningen | High voltage transmission network data for North America and Europe. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Gulf of Mexico Oil & Gas Leases | US BOEM | A database containing information collected by the BOEM for the Gulf of Mexico in three variations: interactive maps, shapefiles, and geodatabases. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power (paper) | Nature (University of Southhampton, UK) | Academic research of global solar and wind farm locations and totals. Note that some geospatial information is not available in the open data provided. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Households with Electricity (by Country) | USAid | Global survey data about households with energy access displayed by country and global levels. (Licensing) | Platform | Access |
| Hybridized Option for Modeling Input-Output Energy Systems (HOMIES) | Duke University | A large-scale input-output database of physical energy flows and monetary flows through the global economy, spanning 1995-2015 and 136 countries (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Hydroelectric Power: Story Map (2. Hydroelectric and Nuclear Power Plants in the US) | Ithaca Public Education Initiative | A map in Section 2 that displays the location of both hydropower and nuclear power plants in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy |
| Hydrogen Demand and Resource Analysis | NREL | An interactive map of the United States that demonstrates local and state demands and pricing for various fuel sources as well as specific detail into hydrogen potential and costs. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Hydropower Database | International Hydropower Association | Regional and country profiles that track and report on hydropower use around the world. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Hydropower Pumped Storage Tool | International Hydropower Association | This is a dataset containing the mapped out locations and statistics of the worlds hydropower dams both existing and planned. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Hydropower Resources Statistical Database in Africa | African Energy Commission | A data source on hydro energy in Africa and its countries that displays dams constructed in the regions. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| HydroSource: Existing Hydropower Assets | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | A source on hydropower designed to help make data driven decisions on future hydropower plants in the US. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| IEA Online Data | International Energy Agency (IEA) | This chart provides basic statistics on world energy use and consumption like primary energy supply, net energy imports, electricity consumption, CO2 emissions etc. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Impact of COVID-19 on Electricity Consumption and Particulate Pollution | University of Chicago | A tool to compare COVID-19 deaths and electricity demand by city, region, or country. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| India Energy Data Profile | Export.Gov | Statistics on the Indian energy sector including installed capacity by fuel source, renewable energy information, and transmission and distribution. | Dataset | General |
| India Hydropower Database | International Hydropower Association | A dataset containing information about India's hydropower dams including specific locations. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Indian Village Satellite Imagery and Energy Access Dataset | Duke University Energy Initiative | This dataset contains remote sensing data and estimates of electricity access rates for every village in the state of Bihar, India. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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. | 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 |
| Integrated model dataset for highly renewable Europe | RE-Europe | A largescale dataset covering renewable energy in Europe. Dataset includes transmission network modeling as well as generation and demand information. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Interactive World Gas Map | Chevron | An interactive world map that displays the world's natural gas information including pipelines, vessels, shareholders, etc. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| International Energy Statistics | EIA | Database providing access to a general overview of multiple datasets for each major energy sources and electricity market in the world. Topics range from market factors to production statistics. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue | ISO New England (ISO-NE) | ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue, with filtering tool (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| ITA Manufacturing Industry Tracker | International Trade Administration | U.S. international trade data, including trade balances and pricing of petroleum and coal products (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| JODI Gas World Database | Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) | A database that provides information on which countries in the world have access to gas at a monthly rate. | Platform | Fuel |
| JODI Oil and Gas Database | Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) | JODI database contains data on market situations of oil and gas and other byproducts for 70+ countries. | Dataset | Fuel |
| JODI Oil World Database | Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) | A database that provides information on which countries in the world have access to oil at monthly intervals. | Platform | Fuel |
| Joint Resarch Center European TIMES Energy System Model | European Commission | A model of the EU and neighboring country's energy system. Includes buildings, transport, industry, power, and agriculture. Projects the evolution of their energy systems. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Landfill Gas Energy Project Data | EPA | A database tracking landfill gas energy projects in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Landsat on Amazon Web Services | Amazon/ U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | Landsat 8 is an ongoing collection of satellite imagery of all land on Earth produced by the Landsat 8 satellite and is available for anyone to use via Amazon S3. (Licensing) | Tool | General |
| Light Every Night Open Data | World Bank | Nighttime lights satellite data (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 sources and information on wind energy resources and more | Wind Energy Resource Atlas for US | A geospatial toolkit that provides data on US wind energy prospects, market information, and network information. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| List of the largest nuclear power stations in the United States | Wikipedia | This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity. (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| 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 CO2 intensity map | Electricity Map | A map of the globe that displays carbon intensity by electrical generation for production and consumption in select locations and countries. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| 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 |
| Low Energy Database | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) | The data contains information of the world and is divided between regions like global north and global south. It contains energy demand by major end-use service and upstream sector. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool | DOE | An interactive map that provides details into low-income energy data in the US. Specifically burden statistics, energy costs, and housing counts. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Macro Grid Report (US) | Breakthrough Energy Sciences | Design simulations data for US power grid scenarios (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 |
| Major Solar Projects List (Map) | Solar Energy Industries Association | A map of the US that provides information on major PV and CSP solar projects and their status. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Map of Oil & Gas Refineries & Pollution, Health & Safety Issues | Refinery Maps | A global map of coal and oil plants and health and safety issues such as oil spills. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Map of Oil & Natural Gas Drilling Health & Safety Issues | Drilling Maps | A map of natural gas and oil drilling in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 |
| Mapped: The world's nuclear power plants | Carbonbrief | A map of the worlds nuclear power plants displaying generation estimates and current status. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| Mapping India's Energy Subsidies | International Institute for Sustainable Development | Mapping and visualizing India's subsidies for fossil fuels and renewables. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel, Renewable Energy |
| Maps and Data on renewable energy potential in the Arctic | Arctic Renewable Energy Atlas | Maps and Data on renewable energy potential in the Arctic | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Marine and Hydrokinetic Atlas | NREL | An interactive map of the United States that presents resource estimates for several different Marine and Hydrokinetic technologies. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| MISO Generator Interconnection Queue | Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) | MISO's generator interconnection queue, including an interacitve queue map (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Modeling of Energy Efficiency for Residential Buildings Using Artificial Neuronal Networks | GitHub | Energy efficiency data for the use of modeling residential energy efficiency in Spain. | Dataset | Efficiency |
| Monthly OECD oil statistics | IEA | Timeseries data of monthly crude oil statistics for OECD countries, broken down by region. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) | USGS | A dataset with information on coal in the US. Information includes stratigraphic data, chemistry data, and historical data. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) | UK Government | Data compiled by the UK government to understand the relationship between energy use and energy efficiency. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |