The Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Open Energy Data Portal partners with Opendatasoft

From Opendatasoft:

Opendatasoft, the leading provider of data portal solutions, today announced a partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity to provide the technology for its new open energy data portal.

Intended as an experimental platform for the future data economy in the energy sector, the Open Energy Hub is a connecting hub for over 70 datasets from over 50 sources including federal, state, academic and private companies. It provides information and visualizations on details such as energy consumption, 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) charging capacity from various providers.

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Access to the portal is free, operated by ORNL and funded by the Office of Electricity at DOE.

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Users of the portal include the general public, utilities and the energy research community, including universities and other national laboratories. Because these users have very different needs, the portal is able to provide data in a variety of ways. Users can view map views and charts and access data via APIs or download the dataset in popular file formats.

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The portal first launched in May 2024 and is continuously updated with new data sets. ORNL also plans to increase the number of visualizations and invite other national labs to share their data. This shows the two-way nature of the portal: users can make requests for new datasets via the Open Energy Hub if they are not currently available on the portal.

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

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