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Energy Data Resources
| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Inventory of Dams | US Army Corps of Engineers | A database to search general information about dams in the United States by state. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| National-level Energy Consumption Data | Worlddata.info | Searchable data on energy consumption and production by country. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| National Oil and Gas Assessments | USGS | A tool to discover previously unknown oil and natural gas deposits in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | 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 |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | NREL develops datasets, maps, models, and tools for the analysis of energy and energy efficiency technologies. (Licensing) | Discoverability Service | Renewable Energy |
| National Residential Efficiency Measures Database | NREL | A database constructed to assist in modeling the most cost-effective way to retrofit a home to be more energy efficient. (Licensing) | Dataset | Building, Efficiency |
| 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 |
| National Solar Radiation Database Data Viewer | NREL | An interactive map with filters from the National Solar Radiation Database that allows the user to visualize irradiance in the United States. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| National Surveys on Energy and Environment | University of Michigan | A database of climate change, energy, and environmental datasets. (Licensing) | Dataset | General, Environment |
| Natural Resources Revenue Data | Department of Interior | Datasets for payments, disbursements, and production of natural resources taken from federal and Native American lands. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| New Electric Generating Plants in Texas | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Various maps of the electrical grid and industry in Texas. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| New England Power System Data | ISO New England | Real-time power grid information for New England's six states provided in maps, charts, and datasets. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| New Renewable Energy (Map) | Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (Indonesia) | A map of Indonesia that allows for filters of energy industry infrastructure locations. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| Nigeria Energy Overview | IAEA | Statistics and figures of Nigeria's energy industry including production and consumption information. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| Nighttime Lights (and Human Transportation) | NOAA | Nighttime lights, daily flight, shipping vessels, and roads on a map - showing "where people live, work, and consume energy" (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| North American Energy Infrastructure Map | North American Cooperation of Energy Information | A map of North America (US, Canada, & Mexico) that has filtering for energy infrastructure and resource data. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| NRG Asset Map | NRG | A visual map of NRG electrical generation sites including type and locations across the world. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| NY Power System Data | New York ISO | Datasets for real time and day ahead market operations for New York's energy market in the US. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| NYC Energy & Water Performance Map | NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability | Interactive map providing energy use, water use, and emissions datas for private buildings over 50,000 square feet (25,000 square feet since 2017) and public sector buildings over 10,000 square feet in New York City, NY (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| NYISO Interconnection Queue | New York ISO (NYISO) | NYISO interconnection process information, and contains link to datafile of NYISO interconnection queue (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| ODYSSEE Database: European Energy Efficiency Data & Indicators | European Commission | A database for energy consumption and energy efficiency for EU and additional countries. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| OECD Countries Energy Data Summary | OECD | A dataset and visual display of energy generation in OECD nations that allows for the segmentation into nuclear generation and various country categories (OECD, EU, G7, G20, etc.). (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| Offshore Resources Data Center | Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement | Database containing multiple topics under offshore resources including leasing, pipeline, well, rig, and production data. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| Oil and Gas Data, 1932-2014 | Harvard Dataverse | A timeseries dataset for global oil and das production, prices an export information. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| Oil Information Statistics | OECD | A databank that allows the user to construct datasets specific to OECD information ranging from general statistics, socio-economic factors, environmental conditions, etc. (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel |
| 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 |
| Open Charge Map | Open Charge Map | A global map that provides charging station locations and their status for EVs. (Licensing) | Platform | Transportation |
| 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 |
| Open Infrastructure Map | OpenInfraMap.org | An interactive global map that allows the user to visualize the "hidden" infrastructure of various power sources. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Outlook for Energy: A Perspective to 2040 | ExxonMobil | A global perspective of energy demand and production projected to 2040 and broken down into different regions. (Licensing) | Dataset | 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 |
| Outlook for Modern Cooking Energy Access in Central America | Figshare | Tables and figures demonstrating Central America's electricity market and demand. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity, Access |
| Overview of electricity production and use in Europe | European Environment Agency | Graphs and infographics of European energy generation by country. It includes efficiency, carbon intensity, generation, and consumption. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 |
| Pan-European Thermal Atlas | Heat Roadmap Europe | A map of Europe that provides information on thermal statistics including excess heat, heat demand, cool demand, solar thermal district heating, etc. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| PEAK: Platform for Energy Access Knowledge | Power for All | A global map allowing the layering of information including socioeconomic considerations for specific countries to solar potential for the globe. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| Petroleum Deposit Data | Peace Research Institute Oslo | A dataset containing the locations of all known oil and gas deposits in the world. Distinguished between on-shore and off-shore. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| Philadelphia Building Energy Benchmarking | City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability | A variety of data including an interactive map providing energy benchmarking data for commercial and residential buildings more than 50,000 square feet in Philadelphia, PA (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Photovoltaic GIS | European Commission | Open access data of photovoltaic performance, meteorological data, and solar radiation at different time intervals at the global level. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| PJM Data Miner | PJM | A database containing numerous datasets covering credit, generation, load, pricing, and system information for the PJM interconnection. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
| PJM Interconnection Queue | Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Interconnection (PJM) | PJM's new services queue for electricity generation projects (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| PLEXOS-World 2015 Global Electricity Model | University College Cork (Ireland) | Global electricity model simulating the dispatch of over 30,000 existing power plants across 164 countries. (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 |
| PlugShare - Electric Vehicle Charging Station Map | PlugShare | A global map that allows for the searching and display of charging stations for electric vehicles. (Licensing) | Platform | Transportation |
| Population Exposure Estimates in Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants | NASA | Dataset providing global information on location and proximity attributes of nuclear power plants. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy |
| Portland Commercial Building Energy Performance Map | City of Portland | Interactive map providing energy data for commercial buildings in Portland, OR (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| Power Data Portal | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | A searchable database regarding electric distribution and voltage phase angles. (Licensing) | Platform | Electricity |
| Power Outage Data for US: IP Address Scans | Mendeley | A dataset to estimate power outages in the US in real time. (Licensing) | Dataset | Electricity |
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