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Energy Data Resources
| Title | Publisher | Description | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation Energy Use Statistics | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Multiple datasets of energy and fuel consumption in U.S. transportation sector. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel, Transportation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UCLA Energy Atlas | UCLA California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) | Interactive map containing energy consumption data for counties in Southern California (Licensing) | Platform | Consumption |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Universal Access to Electricity | UN | A tool to understand global access to electricity through data and modeling. (Licensing) | Platform | Access |
| Uranium Geochemical Data | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) data (Licensing) | Dataset | Nuclear Energy |
| Urban Data Platform Plus | European Commission | A data platform for EU cities regarding their SDG developments. Includes data, trends, and strategies. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| US and International Coal Data | DOE | Datasets containing coal production, consumption, exports/imports, and market information in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | General |
| 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 Coal Mining Locations | EIA (via USGS) | A dataset containing the locations of United States coal mines. (Licensing) | Dataset | Environment |
| US Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) | EIA | Dataset of US commercial buildings energy consumption rate surveys. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| US Electric Generation Map | Electricity Transition | A display of US energy generation from solar, wind, and nuclear sources changing over the years. (Licensing) | Platform | Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy |
| US Energy and Employment Report | Energy Futures Initiative | A platform and report of employment figures in the energy industry by state in the US. (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 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 Mapping System | EIA | A map of the US that allows for the layering of filters related to energy infrastructure. (Licensing) | Platform | General |
| 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 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 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 Oil and Gas Pipeline Mileage | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Timeseries dataset for oil and gas pipelines in the United States. (Licensing) | Dataset | Fuel |
| US Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) | EIA | Survey conducted to determine US residential energy consumption rates. (Licensing) | Platform | Building |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| USA National Gas Station Price Heat Map | GasBuddy | US gas price data (Licensing) | Platform | Fuel, Transportation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. (Licensing) | Platform | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 power global statistics | World Wind Energy International | Statistics on the global wind energy market including generation, capacity, trends, etc. (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 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 Turbine Accidents Database | Mendeley | A dataset containing information on wind turbine accidents. (Licensing) | Dataset | Renewable Energy |
| 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 |
| 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 Coal Quality Inventory Data | USGS | A world database to download information about coal quality by country. (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 |
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