SPONSORING APIs
Create unique applications that monitor and control user data and devices with Tendril. Tendril is the Energy Platform company, delivering end-to-end consumer engagement products, applications and services powered by Tendril Connect – an open, secure and scalable platform that takes the complexity out of the Energy Internet and creates a dialogue between energy service providers and their customers.
Documentation: http://dev.tendrilinc.com
Get detailed and accurate information about your power costs with Genability. Genability has assembled a database of electricity pricing information from over 3500 electricity providers throughout North America. Genability is putting this data in the hands of electricity consumers and companies that assist them, to help everyone make more informed choices about when to use, store and sell electricity.
Documentation: https://developer.genability.com
Empower your customers, engage your employees, and inform your executives with a numbers-driven, data-centric approach to corporate sustainability. Brighter Planet’s technology platform powers commercial programs, apps, and tools that build brands, save companies money, and uncover sustainability opportunities in the most surprising places.
Documentation: http://impact.brighterplanet.com/documentation
CSRHUB has sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on around 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. Benchmark companies, compare corporate social responsibility ratings for ~5,000 companies from 65 countries and 135 industries, and understand environmental, social, and governance performance.
Documentation: http://www.csrhub.com/CleanWebNYC2012
3scale provides a flexible, secure and scalable Infrastructure as a Service for your API or Web Service to control, manage and monetize the distribution of your data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/web applications.
Documentation: http://www.3scale.net/support/how-to-connect/
AMEE helps businesses distill environmental data into meaningful intelligence. Whether you want to calculate the carbon cost of your global supply chain or create a custom app to track water usage, AMEE’s accurate data and agile infrastructure deliver insights that translate to business results.
Documentation: http://www.amee.com/developer/docs/index.php
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
http://www.pge.com/nots/rates/tariffs/energy_use_prices.shtml
http://www.sce.com/aboutsce/regulatory/loadprofiles/loadprofiles.htm
https://supplier.bge.com/LoadProfiles_EnergySettlement/historicalloaddata.htm
http://www.psnh.com/Templates/Content.aspx?id=4294968798
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