Third-Party Data Sources

This platform uses the following third-party data sources to provide energy and utility information.

Ember — Yearly Electricity Data

Source: Ember (ember-energy.org)
Dataset: Yearly Electricity Data — full release (2000–latest)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
URL: ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer

Data was filtered to a subset of metrics (generation by fuel, renewable and fossil share, CO₂ intensity, per-capita demand) and reshaped into a tall time-series format. Used to power the generation-mix, renewable-share-trend, and carbon-intensity charts on country knowledge pages.

OpenEI / EIA Form 861 — ZIP Code to Utility Mapping

Source: U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI
Dataset: EIA Form 861 — ZIP Code to Utility Service Territory (2024)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
URL: data.openei.org/submissions/8563

Data was filtered and restructured for database import. Used to auto-suggest the electricity supplier for site locations based on US ZIP code.

EPA eGRID — Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Dataset: eGRID2023 (Revision 2) — Subregion Resource Mix
License: U.S. federal government work (public domain)
URL: epa.gov/egrid

Used to provide grid-average clean energy percentages for US locations based on their eGRID subregion.

California Energy Commission — Power Content Labels

Source: California Energy Commission
License: California state government public record
URL: energy.ca.gov — Power Content Label

Used to provide utility-specific clean energy percentages for California utilities.