Decarbon Daily - Data Fatigue or Data Hungry?

Data Fatigue or Data Hungry?

I have been a long time subscriber to Data is Plural, a weekly newsletter with interesting data sets from academia, industry, and anywhere else. It's a great resource to keep a pulse of unique information and data that is typically available to download.

Several former clients have talked to me about data fatigue. There are not many people that enjoy sanitizing, wrangling, and verifying data. For many, if you do it more than once, then it is one time too many. For everyone else, keep reading and dig into some of the energy and climate data below.

Energy and Climate Data Resources

• Carbon-conscious energy policies. The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, “is the most comprehensive source of information on incentives and policies that support renewables and energy efficiency in the United States.” The database, which was founded in 1995 and is funded by the Department of Energy, includes tax rebates, solar energy buybacks, building standards, and more.
• Emissions indicators. The Climate Action Tracker is “an independent scientific analysis” that keeps tabs on 32 countries’ progress on tackling climate change. Through its data portal, you can explore the project’s dozens of indicators — such as emissions per capita and renewable energy capacity — and also download the data in bulk.
• Global Wind. The Global Wind Atlas aims “to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world.”
• Offshore drilling.The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement — two of the agencies that replaced the troubled U.S. Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill — publish a few dozen bulk datasets related to their oversight of offshore drilling operations. Among them: lease owners, production metrics, company details, pipeline permits and locations, incident investigations, and platform structures.
• Offshore wind turbines. Ting Zhang et al. have trained an algorithm to identify wind turbines in coastal satellite imagery, and have used it to build a dataset listing the location and construction month of 6,924 turbines offshore of 14 countries between 2015 and 2019. To test the algorithm’s accuracy, the researchers compared its results to other sources, including the US Wind Turbine Database, the UK’s Renewable Energy Planning Database, the European Marine Observation and Data Network, and Open Power System Data.
• Pipelines. The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes a bunch of geographic data, including shapefiles mapping the country’s crude oil, petroleum product, hydrocarbon gas liquid, and natural gas pipelines. Check the last update date on the files.
• Renewable Power Plants. This Data Package contains a list of renewable energy power plants in lists of renewable energy-based power plants of Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
• Rig counts. Since the 1940s, oilfield services corporation Baker Hughes and its predecessor companies have been publishing “rig counts” — the number of rigs actively drilling for oil and/or gas in various parts of the world. These days, the company updates its North America numbers every week and its international counts every month.

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Inside this Issue

📡 Satellite-based Remote Sensing for Energy Infrastructure
🛰 Phantom Space Announces Agreement to Build and Launch 72 Satellite Constellation for Ingenu
🌍 How Space and Satellite Innovation in Scotland can Tackle Global Climate Change
🤖 How Palantir's Edge-AI Technology Leverages Satellites to Protect the Globe