Research Tools: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Open Energy Data Portal Partners with Opendatasoft

From Opendatasoft:

Opendatasoft, the leading Data Portal solution provider, announced today that is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity, to provide the technology for its new open energy data portal.

Envisioned as an experimental platform for the future energy sector data economy, the Open Energy Hub is a connection hub of over 70 datasets from over 50 sources such as federal, state, academia and private sector entities. It provides information and visualizations on details such as energy usage, supply, and availability. It includes the Outage Data Initiative Nationwide (ODIN) Dashboard, which provides a real-time map of power outages and their causes across the United States, as well as data on electric vehicle (EV) charger capacity from a range of providers.

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Free to access, the portal is run by ORNL and is funded by the Office of Electricity at the DOE.

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Portal users include the general public, utilities, and the energy sector research community, including academia and other national labs. As these users have a wide range of different needs, the portal is able to deliver data in a variety of ways. Users can see map views and charts and they can also access data through APIs or download the dataset in common file formats.

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The portal first launched in May 2024 and is being continually updated with new datasets. ORNL also plans to increase the number of visualizations and invite other national laboratories to share their data. Showing the two-way nature of the portal, users can submit requests via the Open Energy Hub for new datasets if it is not currently available on the portal.

The Open Energy Hub can be accessed at https://openenergyhub.ornl.gov/pages/home/

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