The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project - Catalyst Cooperative
The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project is an open source python ETL pipeline that takes publicly available information about the US electricity sector and makes it publicly usable.
Electric utilities report a huge amount of information to the US government and other public agencies. This includes yearly, monthly, and even hourly data about fuel burned, electricity generated, operating expenses, power plant usage patterns and emissions. Unfortunately, much of this data is not released in well documented, ready-to-use, machine readable formats. Data from different agencies tends not to be standardized or easily used in tandem. Several commercial data services clean, package, and re-sell this this data, but at prices which are too high to be accessible to many smaller stakeholders.
PUDL cleans, links, and standardizes this data, all for free!
Project type:
Tool or platform
Categories:
Civic data, Open civic data, Environmental data