The OPSD project

Open Power System Data is a free-of-charge data platform dedicated to electricity system researchers. We collect, check, process, document, and publish data that are publicly available but currently inconvenient to use. The project is a service provider to the modeling community: a supplier of a public good. Learn more about its background or just go ahead and explore the data platform.

Our objective

We want to make life easier for power system modelers. Our goal is to help researchers focus on research and avoid redundant work when collecting, preparing, and aggregating data. We also hope to improve the quality of data and documentation.

Scope

The platform provides data on installed generation capacity by country/technology, individual power plants (conventional and renewable), and time series data. The latter includes electricity consumption, spot prices, and wind and solar generation, both measured and derived from weather models.

User-friendly

We aim at keeping our data clearly structured, well documented, internally consistent, and easily accessible. The scripts used for downloading and processing are open-source, version-controlled, and available through GitHub. For machine readability and easy integration we follow the Data Package convention and publish data primarily as CSV files and metadata as JSON files (Excel and SQLite files are also available). To facilitate reproducibility, all data as well as all scripts are version-controlled and available through stable URLs. Learn more about our IT approach.

An award-winning platform

Open Power System Data won the Open Science Award Schleswig-Holstein and is among the laureates of Land of Ideas.