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Energy Data Resources
| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time data platform for SPP | Southwest Power Pool (ISO) | Real-time and forecasted data for the SPP ISO including graphics, figures, and datasets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Real-time heat map of ISO electricity prices in US | Clarity Grid Solutions | Interactive map that displays the MWh cost across the United States ISOs and within each ISO. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| REDS: REpository of Distribution Systems | Marquette University | A repository of testcases for distribution systems, related to power flow solution, network reconfiguration, capacitor placement, load balancing, contingency analysis, etc. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| Reliability Metrics | AP (via EIA) | Electrical grid reliability in the US including outage frequency for average customers by utility and state. (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 |
| Rural Electricity Demand in India | Harvard Dataverse | Survey data of electrical demand in rural India. (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, Building |
| SciGRID_power | SciGrid | German-led initiative to develop the automated generation of models for existing electrical grids in Europe to be taken and applied to research and further application. (Licensing) | Platform | 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 | Electricity, Building, Fuel |
| Smart Grid Projects Map | European Commission | A map depicting smart grid R&D and demonstration locations across Europe. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| SPP Interconnection Queue | Southwest Power Pool (SPP) | List of active requests in SPP's generator interconnection queue (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Systems Change Lab | World Resources Institute (WRI) | Platform that tracks more than 70 transformational shifts across nearly every system, including the power system, to limit global warming and other challenges (Licensing) | Platform | General, Electricity, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Environment, Policy |
| The power sector in the EU 2019 | Agora Energiewende | Reporting and material about the energy transition in the EU. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| 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 |
| 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. (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 |
| 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 |
| Utility Customer Databases | Market Analysis and Information System (MAISY) | A database utility customer energy data. (Licensing) | Dataset | General, Electricity |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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