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US Energy Data
Website from the Institute for Progress that charts US energy production, consumption, prices and grid reliability, nationally and for every state, from open government data such as the EIA.
What is reusable: unknown sourceopen dataAPI unknownunknown participation CC BY-SA 4.0 for the charts; underlying data under third-party licencesReaders may suggest charts or datasets by a form on the site.
The charts work one year and one state at a time.1 Hannah Ritchie advised on the site and prototyped it as a consultant for the Institute for Progress, a US nonprofit.2 Arnold Ventures supported the work.2 AI models were used in cleaning the data, in the design and in building the charting tools.2
Topics are prices and bills, electricity demand, electricity generation, hydrocarbons and biofuels, and reliability and outages.1,2 Each of the 50 states and DC has a profile of its generation mix, prices and bills, and outage record.1 Three explorers cover energy sources, electricity prices and grid reliability.1 A search runs across more than 130 charts.1 The site was built to give public debate and policymaking a readable layer over data that is otherwise scattered and technical.2
The data comes from free and open sources, chiefly the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), with the Federal Reserve's FRED and the Bureau of Labor Statistics alongside.2 No private or paywalled data is used.2 The charts are licensed CC BY-SA and may be reused with a citation of the page they appear on.2 The underlying data keeps the licence of its original source, which must also be cited.2 The site keeps an update log and takes suggestions by a form and by email.1,2
Its figures could feed work on electricity and energy transitions before anyone builds a model.
- coverage
- United States, national and all 50 states plus DC
- resolution
- state
- cadence
- unknown
- access
- free website, no login; charts reusable under CC BY-SA
- format
- interactive charts and state profiles; underlying data from EIA, FRED and BLS
- homepage
- https://usenergydata.org/
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Tags: electricity, energy prices, grid reliability, generation, US states, charts