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| Name | Publisher | Description |
Type |
Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Housing Survey | U.S. Census Bureau | A biennial US housing survey, that includes data on cooking fuel, clothes dryer fuel, main heating fuel, monthly cost for electricity, and other energy-related data among others (Licensing) | General | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) | European Environment Agency (EEA) | Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| EU Energy Statistical Country Datasheets | European Commission | A database containing statistics on energy generation in the EU and individual EU states. Information includes consumption, production, imports, emissions, and socio-economic statistics. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index (REDTI) | NOAA | A tool for exploring year to year fluctuations in energy demand based on residential heating and cooling. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Data Battery | Inside Energy (IE) | The Data Battery is the repository that contains all datasets used in Inside Energy's stories and reporting. (Licensing) | Dataset | Storage |
| 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 |
| Federal and State Electric Car Tax Credits, Incentives & Rebates | Enel X | A summary of electric vehicle incentives by state, and also at the federal level | Dataset | Transportation |
| California ISO Interconnection Queue | CAISO | Resources related to CAISO's generator interconnection queue (Licensing) | Dataset | 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 |
| NYISO Interconnection Queue | New York ISO (NYISO) | NYISO interconnection process information, and contains link to datafile of NYISO interconnection queue (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Electric Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure Imagery Dataset | Duke University | Benchmark dataset for automated detection of electricity transmission and distribution systems (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Smart Energy Research Laboratory | Smart Energy Research Laboratory | Electricity and gas interval meter edata from over 13,000 homes in Great Britain and accompanying contextual data for researchers. (Licensing) | Dataset | |
| ResStock | NREL | Dataset that describes timeseries energy end-use consumption of the US residential building stock. | Dataset | Building |
| 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 |
| 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 Solar Initiative Data | California Distributed Generation Statistics | This database comprises of all Investor Owned Utility (IOU) solar photovoltaic (PV) net energy metering interconnection data from the three large California IOUs which include Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison Company (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E). (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) | NC Clean Energy Technology Center | Information on incentives and policies that support renewables and energy efficiency in the United States. DSIRE includes a number of resources for developers, policymakers, researchers, and the general public. (Licensing) | Dataset | Policy, Renewable Energy |
| Distributed Solar PV Array Location and Extent Data Set for Remote Sensing Object Identification | Duke University Energy Initiative | This dataset contains the location and polygonal outlines for over 19,000 solar panels across 601 high-resolution aerial images from four cities in California. Dataset applications include training object detection and other machine learning algorithms that use remote sensing imagery, developing specific algorithms for predictive detection of distributed PV systems, and analysis of the socioeconomic correlates of PV deployment. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Energy and Mining Data | World Bank (WB) | World Bank's World Development Indicator data focusing on energy production, use, dependency, and efficiency. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 |
| ERCOT Data | Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) | Real-time and historical statistics surrounding ISO operations of the Texas region. (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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | NSRDB is a serially complete collection of meteorological and solar irradiance data sets for the United States and a growing list of international locations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| OPEC Data | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | This database that puts up OPEC Reference Basket (ORB) comprises of the basket price for the crude oil from various exporting nations. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel, General |
| Outlook for Energy Data | ExxonMobil | The Outlook for Energy is ExxonMobil’s view of energy demand and supply through 2040. This data will help in making a forecast regarding energy transition to meet the needs of the growing population. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel, General |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Reactor Information System (PRIS) | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | PRIS is a comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide and contains information on power reactors in operation, under construction, or those being decommissioned. (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| Railroad Commission of Texas Statistics | Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) | Contains research and statistics on individual Texan oil and gas companies. This site also contains Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) fields & concentrations listings. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| Statistical Review of World Energy | British Petroleum (BP) | BP's own energy production/consumption dataset, similar to IEA and EIA. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 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 |
| Transportation Energy Databook (TEDB) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | The TEDB represents an assembly and display of statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and presents data on other factors that influence transportation energy use. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment, Transportation |
| Uranium Geochemical Data | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) data (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| Utility Rate Database (URDB) | OpenEI | The Utility Rate Database (URDB) is a free storehouse of rate structure information from utilities in the United States. It includes rates for utilities based on the authoritative list of U.S. utility companies maintained by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Wind Energy Data | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind project information, and turbine technical specifications. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit (WIND) | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | The WIND Toolkit includes meteorological conditions and turbine power for more than 126,000 sites in the continental United States for the years 2007–2013. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Renewable power plants in select European countries | Open Power System Data | Renewable power plant stations for Germany, Denmark, France, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom. The different countries may contain varying accuracy in data and power plant parameters. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Renewable Energy |
| Time Series on Load, Wind and Solar, Prices in Hourly Resolution | Open Power System Data | "Timeseries data relevant for power system modelling, namely electricity consumption (load) for 37 European countries as well as wind and solar power generation and capacities and prices for a growing subset of countries." (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| European Weather Data for Power System Modeling | Open Power System Data | Aggregated weather data for European countries by the hour. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| EES / ECO performance indicators (Russia) | Joint Stock Company System Operator of the Unified Energy System | Generation and consumption grid data in Russia. | Dataset | Electricity |
| Eurostat Yearly Energy Consumption | European Commission | Contains the breakdown of energy usage by select European countries and sectors, as well as energy balances which allow the comparison of different fuels an their relative impacts in the economy. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 |
| GridKit: European and North-American extracts | University of Groningen | High voltage transmission network data for North America and Europe. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Rural Electricity Demand in India (REDI) | Harvard Dataverse | A dataset containing the electricity demand in rural India, surveying over 10,000 households and 2,000 enterprises. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Tracking the Sun | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | A dataset containing pricing and trend comparisons between grid connected, distributed PV solar panels in the United States (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Ethiopia Electricity Transmission Network | World Bank Data Catalog | A dataset containing medium and high level transmission lines in Ethiopia. (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 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 |
| 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 |
| Global Oil & Gas Features Database | DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information | A database of oil and gas infrastructure data (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| National Pipeline Mapping System | Department of Transportation: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | An interactive map of the United States that allows for the laying of filters at the county levels to visualize national pipelines, accidents, and land boundries. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Form 22M: Biodiesel Plants in the United States | EIA | A report of the annual prudction capacity and count of biodiesel plants in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| 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 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 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 |
| US Fuel Ethanol Plant Production | EIA | This is a dataset containing the capacity and quantity of plants producing ethanol in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| Strategic Petroleum Reserves | DOE | A series of datasets containing information on foreign and domestic crude oil separated by sulfur content and identifying name. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| US Wind Turbine Database and Map | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | A database containing the locations of both offshore and land-based wind turbines in the United States, including the specifications of the technology used. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Wind Power in India | World Bank Data Catalog | This provides access to a GIS dataset on wind power potential in India including wind speeds and power density potential. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| US Average Wind Speeds data | NOAA | A map of the United States that provides monthly average wind speeds since the 1950s. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 |
| European wind power generation data set | European Commission, SETIS | A report of the hourly time series wind generation in Europe over a 30-year window. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Open data for global energy company's projects for research use | EDP Open Data | Select open access data from EDP's wind and solar energy generation sites. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Digital Obstacle File | Federal Aviation Administration | Components of the US electrical system, among other objects, as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's Digital Obstacle File database (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Global Model of Electrical Transmission | A model predicting the locations of medium voltage grids in six selected African countries. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity | |
| Renewable Energy Atlas of the US (Report) | University of North Texas | A geospatial map of the United States that allows for the visualization of renewable energy resources, federal land ownership, and base map reference information. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Resource Data and Tools | NREL | A database containing multiple datasets ranging in their coverage of solar resource topics including real-time, frequently updated, and historical data. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Synthetic Power Grid Data Set | Columbia University | Datasets generated from the statistical properties of the real power grid based on the topology of the Western Interconnection. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Electric Grid Test Cases | Texas A&M University | List of datasets provided by Texas A&M pertaining to electric power grids. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| 2019 Distribution System Upgrade Unit Cost Database | NREL | Datasets containing information pertaining to the costs of upgrading certain parts in PV systems. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |