Public Utility Data Liberation Project: U.S. Energy System Data from Multiple Agencies

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL) provides analysis-ready U.S. energy system data aggregated from five federal agencies, including the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Its primary focus is on the electricity sector, with additional data on natural gas and energy company financials. The dataset is published by the Catalyst Cooperative under a CC-BY-4.0 license and is hosted on AWS Open Data.

Use Cases

• Modeling electricity generation and consumption patterns based on aggregated U.S. energy system data.
• Analyzing regulatory compliance and market trends using data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
• Assessing environmental impacts of energy infrastructure using data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• Forecasting natural gas supply and demand based on pipeline and financial reporting data.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated from five authoritative U.S. federal agencies, including the EIA, EPA, and FERC.
• Data is described as 'analysis-ready' and provided in bulk for programmatic use.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Collection Method

Aggregated and processed for programmatic use by the Catalyst Cooperative.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

United States