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Public Utility Data Liberation Project

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Description

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL) provides analysis-ready energy system data to climate advocates, researchers, policymakers, and journalists.

PUDL is an open source data processing pipeline that makes US energy data easier to access and use programmatically. Hundreds of gigabytes of valuable data are published by US government agencies, but it's often difficult to work with. PUDL takes the original spreadsheets, CSV files, and databases and turns them into a unified resource. This allows users to spend more time on novel analysis and less time on data preparation.

This information allows users to explore the operating costs of individual power plants, and see how fuel costs impact the viability of different types of generation. It can highlight the competitiveness of renewable electricity in the market today. It can show how the generation mix of different utilities has evolved over time, and how the usage of individual power plants has changed as fuel prices have changed and more renewable generation has been brought online.

Update Frequency

The federal agencies that publish the raw data PUDL processes release new data, monthly, quarterly and yearly. PUDL is continuously improving the data and tries to release new versions of the data quarterly.

License

The PUDL data and documentation are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0 (CC-BY-4.0).

Documentation

You can download the data directly or via the aws CLI tool. If you'd like a UI to explore a subset of the data you can visit data.catalyst.coop.

Managed By

Catalyst Cooperative

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Contact

For general questions or feedback about the data, create an GitHub issue or discussion in the PUDL repo. We also love talking to our users during PUDL Office Hours.

How to Cite

Public Utility Data Liberation Project was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/catalyst-cooperative-pudl.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

Resources on AWS

  • Description
    All PUDL data outputs.
    Resource type
    S3 Bucket
    Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
    arn:aws:s3:::pudl.catalyst.coop
    AWS Region
    us-west-2
    AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
    aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/

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