US version of OPSD: The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project

[Tom Brown]

Dear open energy modellers,

Here's one for our friends across the puddle (see what I did there):

https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl

The Public Utility Data Liberation project aims to provide a useful
interface to publicly available electric utility data in the US. It uses
information from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the
Energy Information Administration (EIA), and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), among others.

They have scripts in Python for parsing and munging publicly available
data. Also some notebooks for analysing the results:

https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl/tree/master/results/notebooks

Might be useful to put the database output on zenodo.org for easy download?

PUDL could be seen as a US version of the European OPSD project:

https://open-power-system-data.org/

I'm not sure what else there is like this around for the US, anybody know?

Best wishes,

Tom


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