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Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| World Nuclear Power Status | World Nuclear Industry Status Report | Statistics on the status of nuclear power plants across the world. | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| World Nuclear Association Facts and Figures | World Nuclear Association | Database to access information about the world nuclear energy generation including figures by country and generation database. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| World LNG Map | ExxonMobil | Data and maps containing the sources, facilities, and projects related to liquid natural gas. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| World Energy Supply | IEA | Global energy statistical data (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| World Energy Statistics | Enerdata | World energy statistical data (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| World Energy Issues Monitor Tool | World Energy Council | An interactive tool to help visualize energy issues across the world and categorize them by importance and uncertainties. There are multiple filters to consider different regions and conditions. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| World Coal Quality Inventory Data | USGS | A world database to download information about coal quality by country. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| World Bank Indicators - Energy & Mining | Trading Economics | A database with information covering a wide range of topics within the mining and energy industry. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| World Bank Energy Data | World Bank | World Bank DataBank containing various energy consumption and investment datasets, at the global- and country-level (Licensing) | Discoverability Service | Electricity |
| Wind Turbine Accidents Database | Mendeley | A dataset containing information on wind turbine accidents. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| Wind Prospector (WIND Toolkit) | NREL | A map of the United States providing potential wind energy generation at varying speeds including topographic and site details. (Licensing) | Platform | 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 |
| Wind power global statistics | World Wind Energy International | Statistics on the global wind energy market including generation, capacity, trends, etc. | Platform | 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 |
| Wind Energy Maps and Data (WINDExchange) | DOE | A database that provides various maps of the United States with information on wind power potential and trends. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Wiki-Solar | WolfeWare Limited | Wiki-Solar provides information about the deployment of solar photovoltaic power stations of 4 MWAC and above with over 150 GW of capacity of utility-scale projects both operating and under development. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Wholesale Electricity and Natural Gas Market Data | EIA | Datasets pertaining to United States wholesale market prices for electricity and natural gas including both current and historical data. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| Weekly Petroleum Status Report | EIA | A database with information on crude oil in the US including weekly predictions, production, and market information. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| Utility-scale solar database platform | Wiki-Solar | A database containing different forms of data representing most utility-scale solar power plants in operation and many in construction in the world. | Platform | Renewable 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 |
| Utility Customer Databases | Market Analysis and Information System (MAISY) | A database utility customer energy data. | Dataset | General, Electricity |
| Utility Carbon Reduction Tracker | Smart Electric Power Alliance | A map of the United States that displays utility companies and their individual promises to reduce emissions by 2050. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| USDA Energy Investments Map | USDA | A map of the United States that depicts where energy investments occur within the country, by energy type. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| USA National Gas Station Price Heat Map | GasBuddy | US gas price data (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel, Transportation |
| USA Energy & Natural Resources Data | USA Facts | Multiple sources of energy and environment data for the United States including energy production, land use, and EPA policy figures. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 |
| US Transportation Agencies Fuel and Energy Consumption Data | Federal Transit Administration | A database that provides datasets about the US transit system, particularly focused on fuel and energy. (Licensing) | Dataset | Transportation |
| US State and Local Energy Data | NREL | A tool to help planning at the local and state level based on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and transportation data. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| US Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) | EIA | Survey conducted to determine US residential energy consumption rates. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| US Oil and Gas Pipeline Mileage | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Timeseries dataset for oil and gas pipelines in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| US Nuclear Facility Data & Locator | NRC | A database with maps used to locate various forms of nuclear power facilities in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| US Geospatial solar company platform | Solar Energy Industries Association | A database for all the solar companies in the United States including locations and contact information. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| US Energy Mapping System | EIA | A map of the US that allows for the layering of filters related to energy infrastructure. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| US Energy Infrastructure Visualization | University of Chicago | An interactive map of the United States that has filters for energy infrastructure by type of energy. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| US Energy Efficiency Performance Metrics | American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) | Infographics providing data on energy efficiency in the United States by various metrics. (Licensing) | Platform | Efficiency |
| US Energy and Employment Report | Energy Futures Initiative | A platform and report of employment figures in the energy industry by state in the US. | Platform | General |
| US Electric Generation Map | Electricity Transition | A display of US energy generation from solar, wind, and nuclear sources changing over the years. | Platform | Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy |
| US Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) | EIA | Dataset of US commercial buildings energy consumption rate surveys. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| US Coal Mining Locations | EIA (via USGS) | A dataset containing the locations of United States coal mines. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| US Average Wind Speeds data | NOAA | A map of the United States that provides monthly average wind speeds since the 1950s. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| US and International Coal Data | DOE | Datasets containing coal production, consumption, exports/imports, and market information in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Urban Data Platform Plus | European Commission | A data platform for EU cities regarding their SDG developments. Includes data, trends, and strategies. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Uranium Geochemical Data | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) data (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| Universal Access to Electricity | UN | A tool to understand global access to electricity through data and modeling. (Licensing) | Platform | Access |
| United States - State Energy Data System (SEDS) | DOE | Panel data of US state's energy systems including estimates of energy production, consumption, prices, and expenditures by source and sector. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| UNECE Renewable Energy Map | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | An interactive map and country breakdown of renewable energy policy and goals in the UNECE countries. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| UN Statistics Database - Energy Statistics | United Nations (Sustainable Development Goals) | A database covering annual statistics on production, trade information, transformation and consumption values for various fuel sources. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| UCLA Energy Atlas | UCLA California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) | Interactive map containing energy consumption data for counties in Southern California (Licensing) | Platform | Consumption |
| U.S. Hourly Electric Grid Monitor | EIA | Interactive visualization of hourly and daily electricity demand and balancing authority information for the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| TVA Power System Overview | Tennessee Valley Authority | Data pertaining to the locations of power generation sites in the Tennessee Valley Authority. Includes locations of both fossil and renewable sources. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Tribal Energy Atlas | NREL | An interactive map specifically providing data on tribal locations in the United States pertaining to environmental, energy, and natural resource potentials. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Transportation Energy Use Statistics | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Multiple datasets of energy and fuel consumption in U.S. transportation sector. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel, Transportation |
| 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 |
| Transportation Energy Data Book | ORNL | A database that contains numerous datasets ranging from energy topics to transportation. (Licensing) | Dataset | Transportation |
| Transmission Availability Data System | North American Electric Reliability Cooperation | Data collection through Transmission Availability Data Systems for AC and DC circuits and transformers and converters. | Platform | Electricity |
| TransAtlas | NREL | A map of the United States that displays the locations of alternative fueling stations, production plants, and vehicle density. (Licensing) | Platform | Transportation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Total Energy Annual Review | EIA | A database with annual and monthly energy review statistics including market information and consumption for various energy sources. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 |
| Thermal Springs in US Map | NOAA | A map of the thermal springs in the United States including their locations, names, and brief statistics. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| The World Factbook: Energy | Central Intelligence Agency | Statistics on global energy including access, markets, production, consumption, as well as breakdowns into energy types. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 |
| The power sector in the EU 2019 | Agora Energiewende | Reporting and material about the energy transition in the EU. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) | U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | This site provides national foundation-level geospatial open data, including energy data from transmission infrastructure, gas pipelines, and more. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers (Platform/Tool) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | A map of the United States that provides information on energy efficiency programs by state, year, or regions. (Licensing) | Platform | Efficiency |
| 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 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 Carbon Footprint of Household Energy Use in the United States | University of Michigan | Data related to creating model outputs on US household carbon footprints (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| 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 |
| Tariffs Database | UN Foundation: Energy Access Practitioner Network | A database to compare various tariff policies in 80 different developing countries for small scale, off-grid, sustainable energy projects. | Platform | General, Renewable Energy |
| System Advisor Model (SAM) | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | Performance and financial model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry. (Licensing) | Tool | 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 |
| 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 |
| Storage Lab | Storage Lab | A variety of datasets and tools containing data related to energy storage, renewables, and transportation at utility-scale, residential, commercial and industrial levels (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Status of US Nuclear Outages | EIA | Daily nuclear power plant operating status and outage data for the U.S. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| Statistical Review of World Energy | British Petroleum (BP) | BP's own energy production/consumption dataset, similar to IEA and EIA. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| State-by-State Energy Choice Information (Map) | American Coalition of Competitive Energy Suppliers | A map of the US that allows the user to see which residents have a choice in their electricity or heating provider based on their state. | Platform | General |
| State Policies Promoting Hybrid and Electric Vehicles | National Conference of State Legislatures | An interactive map providing state hybrid and electric vehicle incentives (Licensing) | Platform | Transportation |
| State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency Database | NC Clean Energy Technology Center: DSIRE | An interactive map that allows the user to see United States clean energy policy and initiatives by state. (Licensing) | Platform | General, Renewable Energy |
| State Climate Policy Map | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions | Maps of the United States that depict differing climate policies by state. (Licensing) | Platform | Environment |
| SPP Interconnection Queue | Southwest Power Pool (SPP) | List of active requests in SPP's generator interconnection queue (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Southeast Asia Energy Database System | ASEAN Center for Energy | Database containing energy statistics, news, and policies for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations broken down by country. | Platform | General |
| Solar, Wind, Geothermal Resource Potential/Project Maps (by Country) | Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) | GIS maps and links to renewable energy potential including wind, solar, and geothermal, across the world divided by country or region. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar State by State Map | Solar Energy Industries Association | Solar energy progress by state including capacity, infrastructure, and economic statistics. (Licensing) | Platform | 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 |
| Solar Radiation Data (SoDa) | MINES ParisTech and Transvalor Dpt | The Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) is a web service that delivers time series of Temperature (at 2 m), Relative Humidity (at 2 m), Pressure (at 2 m), Wind speed and direction (at 10 m), Rainfall, Snowfall and Snow depth. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Quotes Platform/Map | EnergySage | A tool to get solar power installation quotes for residential, commercial, and non-profit properties at specific addresses. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Pumps Tool | Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (India) | A tool to help assess and adopt solar irrigation systems in India. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Maps | Argonne National Lab | A set of maps for spatial analysis of potential solar energy generation sites. | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Program Maps | Bureau of Land Management | A set of maps that provide information on potential solar energy generation sites, excluding BLM-administered land. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Solar Means Business | Solar Energy Industries Association | An interactive map and access to data that demonstrates American businesses that have purchased and installed solar energy systems over time. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Map - Locations of Solar Farms, Solar Roofs & Solar Parking Lots | Solar Energy Maps | A global map of various types of solar energy generation. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar for All | NREL | A map of the United States and Puerto Rico providing rooftop solar potential as well as potential expenditures, efficiency, and costs. It also includes demographic information, climate and environmental information, and health indicators. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| Solar Calculator: Estimate Solar Savings | EnergySage | A tool to estimate potential savings from installing solar energy based on address and current energy costs. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |