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Energy Data Resources
| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| India Hydropower Database | International Hydropower Association | A dataset containing information about India's hydropower dams including specific locations. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| (India) Nuclear Plants Under Operation | Nuclear Power Corporation of India | Data on India's nuclear power plants that are under operation including capacity, generation, and power factors. (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| (India) Nuclear Power Plants | Kapsarc Data Portal | Data on nuclear power plants in India including generation info, locations, and reactor type. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| Indian Village Satellite Imagery and Energy Access Dataset | Duke University | 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. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment |
| Innovation Tracker EDF | Environmental Defense Fund | Dynamic chart that shows where funds are being located for energy development by sector (Licensing) | Platform | General, 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 |
| 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. (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. (Licensing) | 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 (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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 |
| 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 |
| National Hydropower Map | National Hydropower Association | Map of the United States with specific information on each state’s hydropower generation. Includes location & of number of plants, total generation, and other statistics. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
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