Below is a list of datasets that can get you contributed by friends and sponsors for use in building your apps. While there are no restrictions on public or private datasets which can be used, we think the following compilation is a great place to start. Don’t forget to take a look a the list of APIs as well.
If you have or know of other pertinent datasets, please let us know, and we’ll post them here.
CATEGORY
ORGANIZATION
DESCRIPTION
URL
Agriculture
eLeaf
Demo data sets for vegetation, water and CO2 intake
Data.gov
Dataset on water in US
AGI and wage income by state
Data.gov
API to return demographics by coordinates
Microsoft Azure
Demographics datasets
Real-time, accurate and comprehensive electricity pricing, NA-wide (residential and C&I)
Tendril
Residential energy usage and cost, price programs, device control and messages
infochimps
Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey
Data.gov
State level energyuse by major economic sectors, energy production and and State-level energy price and expenditure data.
Electricity generation by State by type of generation, by producer
RPI.edu
Linked Government energy datasets
Openei.org
Energy datasets
Commercial Building Energy profile
California ISO
California on-grid renewables
Various utilities
Load profile data
Industry Revenues and Employment
Spills Number and Volume data
Federal funding for Brownfields
Data.gov
eGRID is a comprehensive source of data on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the US
eGRID documentation
Environmental performance index
Country-level environmental indicators from Yale.
EPA
EPA US datasets
Microsoft Azure
Environmental datasets
Data.gov
Population density in 2020
Geodata catalog
UK government
UK govt datasets
ELCD
EU Lifecycle analysis for materials, data, transport and waste
Europe’s public data
Public datasets
AWS
80 years of weather data
Pachube
RealTime wiring for internet of things
Microsoft Azure
Wolfram Alpha – Query engine
Data sample
Widget sample
TRUCost
Environmental impact data
USC Sustainability
Energy Dashboard
Username
perillonworkspace.comgreenusc
Password
Energy123
Real time parking availability and pricing API
Google maps Bike and Walk directions API
Documentation
Data.gov
Green Vehicle Guide provides vehicle ratings based on emissions and fuel economy.
Highway statistics – miles traveled, trip length, drivers and vehicles
Amtrak stations
