Related open data projects
The Open Power System Data platform aims at providing free and open data of the European power system. A number of projects have similar aims. Some are initiatives by individuals, others are research projects, and still others are driven by associations or companies. Some of the sites below provide data for free, but may restrict use to non-commercial applications. Data projects with a focus outside Europe or outside the power sector are not listed. See data sources for primary sources.
Data projects
EnergyMap.info
A user-friendly database of all renewable-based power generators in Germany.
Enipedia
A wiki-based collection of global power plant data run by Chris Davis (TU Delft).
Global Power Plant
Database
Collaboration led by WRI that maintains a comprehensive, open source database of power plants
around the world. Each power plant is geolocated and entries contain information on plant capacity,
generation, ownership, and fuel type. As of April 2018, the database includes around 25,500 power
plants from 162 countries.
OpenGridMap
OpenGridMap employs crowdsourcing techniques to gather detailed data on electricity network
components and then infer a realistic network structure using methods from statistics and graph
theory.
Paul-Frederik Bach
A collection of time series data provided by Paul-Frederik Bach. Covers wind, solar, load, price
and cross-border flow time series of 11 countries, some of which date back to 2006.
Power-grid frequency
database
A series of power-grid frequency recordings taken in Europe, the USA, and South Africa.
Renewables.ninja
Generate wind and solar profiles from MERRA weather data – globally. Run by Stefan Pfenninger
and Iain Staffell.
R code for deriving wind power production from MERRA-2 wind speeds from the COPA model. Includes examples that walk the reader through all steps of deriving wind power production from gridded wind data and an extensive list of functions for vertical and horizontal interpolation of wind speeds, and for bias correction.
SciGRID
An open transmission grid topology developed by NextEnergy (under construction). Derived from
OpenStreetMap, published under ODbL.
Visualizations
Agorameter
Close-to-real time charts of German power generation and prices, operated by Agora Energiewende. A
comprehensive documentation is available. For scientific purposes, the underlying data is provided
upon request.
Energy Charts
Close-to-real time charts of German power generation and prices, operated by Fraunhofer ISE.
How
much renewable power is produced in your country today?
Collection of websites providing real time data and visualizations of electricity generation on the
Energieblog by Jasper Vis.
SMARD
Close-to-real time visualization of essential electricity market data for Germany and to a lesser
extent Europe, operated by Bundesnetzagentur.
Electricity Maps
Live average CO2 emissions from electricity generation by country.
WattTime
Live marginal CO2 emissions from electricity generation by US balancing authorities.
Other pages listing data sources
Open Energy Modelling
Initiative
A wiki-based collection of open energy data sources.
Wikipedia page on
Open energy system databases
Quite comprehensive and growing list of open source databases.