Resources

SPONSORING APIs


FREE CLEANWEB APIs

OPENEI

OpenEI is a knowledge sharing online community dedicated to connecting people with the latest information and data on energy resources from around the world.

PVWATTS

NREL’s PVWatts calculates the energy production and cost savings of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. This service estimates the performance of hypothetical residential and small commercial PV installations.

CARBON CALCULATED

Carbon Calculated is an open platform of carbon data, and carbon and energy management software solutions for CRC, EU-ETS, ISO14064 & CDP.

TOTAL GRID

Total Grid is an open source community dedicated to modernizing national power systems and microgrids while driving the development of the Smart Grid.

WATTZON REBATES CENTER

WattzOn’s Rebates Center API lets you look up lookup rebates for any US zipcode.

GOODGUIDE

GoodGuide helps you find safe, healthy, green & ethical products based on scientific ratings.

ALTERNATIVE FUEL STATIONS

Query NREL’s database of Alternative Fuel Stations.


PAID/EVALUATION ONLY CLEANWEB APIs

ENERGYIQ

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s EnergyIQ is an action-oriented benchmarking tool for non-residential buildings.

HOME ENERGY SAVER

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s Home Energy Saver provide customized estimates of residential energy use, energy bills, and greenhouse-gas emissions.

HOME ENERGY SCORING TOOL

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s Home Energy Scoring Tool provides an “asset rating” of a home’s energy use under standardized occupancy and operational conditions.


NATIONAL DATASETS

CATEGORY

ORGANIZATION

DESCRIPTION

URL

Agriculture

eLeaf

Demo data sets for vegetation, water and CO2 intake

Data.gov

Dataset on water in US


Demographic


Data.gov


AGI and wage income by state

Data.gov

API to return demographics by coordinates

Microsoft Azure

Demographics datasets


Energy


Genability


Real-time, accurate and comprehensive electricity pricing, NA-wide (residential and C&I)

Tendril

Residential energy usage and cost, price programs, device control and messages

infochimps

Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey

Data.gov

State level energyuse by major economic sectors, energy production and and State-level energy price and expenditure data.

Electricity generation by State by type of generation, by producer

RPI.edu

Linked Government energy datasets

Openei.org

Energy datasets

Commercial Building Energy profile

California ISO

California on-grid renewables

Various utilities

Load profile data


Environmental


Infochimps


Industry Revenues and Employment

Spills Number and Volume data

Federal funding for Brownfields

Data.gov

eGRID is a comprehensive source of data on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the US

eGRID documentation

Environmental performance index

Country-level environmental indicators from Yale.

EPA

EPA US datasets

Microsoft Azure

Environmental datasets


Geolocation


Microsoft Azure


Real Estate datasets

Data.gov

Population density in 2020

Geodata catalog


General


Data.gov


US govt datasets

UK government

UK govt datasets

ELCD

EU Lifecycle analysis for materials, data, transport and waste

Europe’s public data

Public datasets

AWS

80 years of weather data

Pachube

RealTime wiring for internet of things

Microsoft Azure

Wolfram Alpha – Query engine


Sustainability


CSRHub


API

Data sample

Widget sample

TRUCost

Environmental impact data

USC Sustainability

Energy Dashboard

Username

perillonworkspace.comgreenusc

Password

Energy123


Transportation


SFPark


Real time parking availability and pricing API

Google maps Bike and Walk directions API via chad kimball course

Documentation

Data.gov

Green Vehicle Guide provides vehicle ratings based on emissions and fuel economy.

Highway statistics – miles traveled, trip length, drivers and vehicles

Amtrak stations