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| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Climate TRACE | Climate TRACE | Database and interactive map of location-specific greenhouse gas emissions across the world (Licensing) | Platform | General, Environment, 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, Building |
| 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. (Licensing) | 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 and Demand | North American Electric Reliability Cooperation | Dataset of the North American electrical supply and demand for bulk power systems. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Supply & Demand | North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) | Data for the North American bulk power system (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative | Prayas Energy Group | An interactive map of India and Bangladesh that monitors live electricity supply. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| 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. (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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. (Licensing) | 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 |
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