The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) is the latest wind resource data set for offshore regions in the United States, which supersedes, for its offshore component, the Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit, which was published about a decade ago and is currently one of the primary resources for stakeholders conducting wind resource assessments in the continental United States. The NOW-23 data set was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) version 4.2.1. A regional approach was used: for each offshore region, the WRF setup was selected based on validation against available observations. The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts 5 Reanalysis (ERA-5) data set, using a 6-hour refresh rate. The model is configured with an initial horizontal grid spacing of 6 km and an internal nested domain that refined the spatial resolution to 2 km. The model is run with 61 vertical levels, with 12 levels in the lower 300m of the atmosphere, stretching from 5 m to 45 m in height. The MYNN planetary boundary layer and surface layer schemes were used the North Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, Great Lakes, Hawaii, and North Pacific regions. On the other hand, using the YSU planetary boundary layer and MM5 surface layer schemes resulted in a better skill in the South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and South Pacific regions. A more detailed description of the WRF model setup can be found in the WRF namelist files linked at the bottom of this page. For all regions, the NOW-23 data set coverage starts on January 1, 2020. For Hawaii and the North Pacific regions, NOW-23 goes until December 31, 2019. For the South Pacific region, the model goes until 31 December, 2022. For all other regions, the model covers until December 31, 2020. Outputs are available at 5 minute resolution, and for all regions we have also included output files at hourly resolution. The NOW-23 data are provided here as HDF5 files. Examples of how to use the HSDS Service to Access the NOW-23 files are linked below. A list of the variables included in the NOW-23 files is also linked below.
The AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT) evaluates how energy policies and programs such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric vehicles lead to changes in emissions of particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and ammonia (NH3) from electric power plants at a county, state, or regional level. AVERT is a free tool designed to meet the needs of state air quality planners, energy officials, public utility commission staff, environmental agency staff, professionals in the clean energy field, people working on climate planning, and other interested stakeholders.
The CPG Product Supplier Directory includes manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers for each product so you can use it to search for specific companies and products.
The CRREM tool allows investors and property owners to assess the exposure of their assets to stranding risks based on energy and emission data and the analysis of regulatory requirements.
This spreadsheet allows the user to calculate parameters relevant to techno-economic performance of a two-step absorption process to transport low temperature geothermal heat some distance (1-20 miles) for use in building air conditioning. The parameters included are (1) energy density of aqueous LiBr and LiCl solutions, (2) transportation cost of trucking solution, and (3) equipment cost for the required chillers and cooling towers in the two-step absorption approach. More information is available in the included public report: "A Technical and Economic Analysis of an Innovative Two-Step Absorption System for Utilizing Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources to Condition Commercial Buildings"
The Carbon Ore Resources Database (CORD) is a working collection of 399 data files associated with carbon ore resources in the United States. The collection includes spatial/non-spatial, filtered, processed, and secondary data files with original data acquisition efforts focused on domestic coal resources. All data were acquired via open-source, online sources from a combination of 18 national, state, and university entities. Datasets are categorized to represent aspects of carbon ore resources, to include: Geochemistry, Geology, Infrastructure, and Samples. Geospatial datasets are summarized and analyzed by record and dataset density or the number of records or datasets per 400 square kilometer grid cells. Additionally, the “CORD Platform,” an ArcGIS Online geospatial dashboard web application, enables users to interact and query with CORD datasets. The CORD provides a single database and location for data-driven analytical needs associated with the utilization of carbon ore resources.
EPA has over 50 climate change indicators that show changes over time and include more than 100 figures as graphs and maps.
Demand.ninja Tool is a customisable model for hourly heating and cooling demand applicable globally at all spatial scales.
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency. The blue ENERGY STAR label provides simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. With this powerful tool, you can estimate your building’s GHG emissions, support GHG emissions inventories, evaluate emissions under local building performance standards, and forecast the impact of changes in building efficiency and energy procurement.
The Early Phase Integrated Carbon (EPIC) assessment is a whole life carbon tool built by EHDD to support climate-positive design decisions in early project phases when data is scarce but the potential for emissions reduction is high. To overcome the scarcity of data, EPIC uses a model that combines regionally-specific background data, forward-looking projections, peer-reviewed findings, and common sense assumptions to assess the relative impact of a variety of carbon reduction measures on a project’s embodied, operational, and landscape carbon footprints.
Version 2 of the GeoRePORT protocols and excel-based reporting tools. Software allows users to grade the geologic, technical, and socio-economic conditions at a geothermal resource location for both electricity generation and direct-use. Includes tool and protocols for: * Geologic Assessment Tool * Technical Assessment Tool * Socio-Economic Assessment Tool * International Socio-Economic Assessment Tool In addition, GeoRePORT now includes a Resource Size Assessment tool and protocol.
The Geothermal Resource Portfolio Optimization and Reporting Technique (GeoRePORT) was developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office to assist in identifying and pursuing long-term investment strategies through the development of a resource reporting protocol. GeoRePORT provides scientists and nonscientists a comprehensive and quantitative means of reporting: (1) features intrinsic to geothermal sites (project grade) and (2) maturity of the development (project readiness). Because geothermal feasibility is not determined by any single factor (e.g., temperature, permeability, permitting), a site?s project grade and readiness are evaluated on 12 attributes pertaining to geological, technical, or socio-economic feasibility. In this submission, we present the geological, socio-economic, and technical protocols as well as the spreadsheet template for easy data entry and reporting of the GeoRePORT protocol.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with developing a metric in 2012 to measure the impacts of RD&D funding on the cost and time required for geothermal exploration activities. The development of this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time data for exploration techniques, creating a baseline suite of exploration techniques to which future exploration cost and time improvements can be compared, and developing an online tool for graphically showing potential project impacts (all available at http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway: Geothermal). This paper describes the methodology used to define the baseline exploration suite of techniques (baseline), as well as the approach that was used to create the cost and time data set that populates the baseline. The resulting product, an online tool for measuring impact, and the aggregated cost and time data are available on the Open Energy Information website (OpenEI, http://en.openei.org) for public access.
ICAO’s Application Programming Interface (API) Data Service contains the raw data collected and processed from different aviation authorities, Member States, other international organisations and NGOs. Registration required to get an API key with 100 free calls to test the ICAO API service. Additional calls require a paid subscription.
ICAO has developed a methodology to calculate the carbon dioxide emissions from air travel for use in offset programmes. The methodology applies the best publicly available industry data to account for various factors such as aircraft types, route-specific data, passenger load factors and cargo carried. The ICAO Carbon Emissions Calculator allows passengers to estimate the emissions attributed to their air travel. It is simple to use and requires only a limited amount of information from the user. ICEC is the only internationally approved tool to estimate carbon emissions from air travel.
ICAO has developed a methodology to calculate the carbon dioxide emissions from air travel for use in offset programmes. The methodology applies the best publicly available industry data to account for various factors such as aircraft types, route-specific data, passenger load factors and cargo carried. The ICAO Carbon Emissions Calculator allows passengers to estimate the emissions attributed to their air travel. It is simple to use and requires only a limited amount of information from the user. ICEC is the only internationally approved tool to estimate carbon emissions from air travel.
ICAP’s Allowance Price Explorer allows you to explore allowance prices of emissions trading systems around the world
Impact is a digital visualisation tool that helps you understand your community’s carbon footprint. It works for parishes, wards and local authority areas. It helps identify the areas where taking action to tackle climate change can make the biggest difference.
The NABERS ESC Estimator will help you understand whether your building is eligible to participate in the NSW Energy Savings Scheme (ESS) under the NABERS baseline method. It will also provide an estimation of how many ESCs your building could potentially generate by reducing its energy consumption. For this tool you will need an accurate estimation of your energy consumption and your predicted NABERS Energy rating. To generate ESCs, you will need to assign an Accredited Certificate Provider (ACP) before the end of the rating period. Note: results predicted by the ESC Estimator are an indication only.
NABERS has released prediction tools to support building owners in understanding the impact of NABERS Energy ratings on individual assets across different sectors. The tool includes forecasted scenarios estimating the impact on ratings in 2025 and 2030. The benchmarks which calculate NABERS Energy ratings are updated every five years with the next update scheduled for 2025. These changes are implemented in a way that does not affect the average rating of the sector at that time.
Use the NABERS rating calculators to get an idea of how well your building or tenancy is performing. Results are an indication only and cannot be promoted or published.
NABERS reverse calculators give you an indication of the maximum amount of energy and water your building can use to achieve your desired rating.
This interactive web-based GIS mapping application gives interested website visitors access to detailed global information related to ocean energy. The available information comprises ocean energy facilities, resources, relevant infrastructure and relevant general geopolitical and geographical information, altogether in conjunction with the respective location and distribution on a global map.
Sourcing and curating high-quality, up-to-date, and comprehensive map data from disparate sources is difficult and expensive. Overture aims to incorporate map data from multiple sources including Overture Members, civic organizations, and open data sources.
Sourcing and curating high-quality, up-to-date, and comprehensive map data from disparate sources is difficult and expensive. Overture aims to incorporate map data from multiple sources including Overture Members, civic organizations, and open data sources.
PBCC is a free tool which estimates the per-person carbon footprint for every Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in England. LSOAs are small statistical areas with a population of about 1,500 - 3,000. It draws on a wide range of data and research to give a representative view of how carbon footprints vary across the country. Last Updated: 08/09/2022
The Robust Application of Multiple Power Sources & Systems—Power Flow tool (RAMPS2-PF)—will enable researchers, policy makers, and engineers to understand how to leverage the benefits of renewable sources of energy to work in a collaborative way with existing power generation sources.
The RETScreen SoftwareHeat Pump Modelcan be used worldwide to evaluate the energy production and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for heat pump projects, ranging in size from air-source heat pump (ASHP) networks in commercial and institutional buildings, to horizontal ground-coupled heat pumps (GCHP) to heat and/or cool space and/or processes in institutional buildings and industrial facilities, to combined heating and cooling using vertical boreholes for residential, commercial and institutional buildings and industrial facilities, to open loop or standing well groundwater heat pumps (GWHP) for residential systems. In addition, both the size and cost of the ground heat exchanger can be calculated using a convenientGround heat exchanger tool. The software (available in mu
This document describes the design requirements for the geothermal heat pump (GHP) module being added to the existing REopt Lite web tool. This document describes the purpose, users, and functional requirements to which the modified web tool shall conform. This document will be revised, as required, throughout the development phase with consensus between the Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) and NREL. The GHP module will expand existing REopt Lite capabilities to include techno-economic optimization of GHP systems, either stand alone, or integrated with the other existing technology types, namely solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, battery energy storage, thermal energy storage, combined hear and power (CHP), and absorption chiller. Included in this submission are links to the REopt Lite web tool, API, and open-source Git-Hub page. The REopt Lite tool can also be accessed directly via the NREL Developer Network. A link is also provided for the REopt report that overviews the module's capabilities.
The Real Estate Environmental Benchmark (REEB) is a publicly available operational benchmark of environmental performance for commercial property in the UK. It is one of the only benchmarks based on buildings ‘in-use’ performance. It is increasingly becoming the ‘industry standard’ used by investors, fund managers, and property owners to compare the performance of their assets with other similar assets from portfolios across the UK.
EPA created the Recycled Content (ReCon) Tool to help companies and individuals estimate embodied carbon, the climate footprint across the full lifecycle of purchasing and/or manufacturing materials with varying degrees of post-consumer recycled content. Estimates provided by the ReCon Tool are intended to support voluntary reporting initiatives, as well as EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) Program and other Environmentally Preferable Purchasing activities.
Renewables.ninja allows users to run simulations of the hourly power output from wind and solar power plants located anywhere in the world. The tool helps make scientific-quality weather and energy data available to a wider community.
This Tool is intended to enable companies to develop appropriate science-based emissions reductions targets, as well as to assist companies understand and implement the level of climate ambition required to meet the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.
The SBTi’s target list contains companies and financial institutions that have set science-based targets, or have committed to developing targets. Updated every Thursday, the dataset includes high-level information about each organization’s targets or commitments.
The Temperature Alignment tool was created to enable the widespread implementation of the method by data providers and financial institutions, to work with any data source and in most IT environments. For each method, the tool provides the following outputs: I. Portfolio coverage: generate the % of the portfolio currently covered by SBTi-approved targets. Ii. Temperature scoring: generate the current temperature score of the portfolio (in addition to the individual temperature scores of the portfolio companies). It also enables the generation of a series of what-if scenarios to showcase how this temperature score could be reduced.
The SuperTracker is an online tool that helps you track what you currently eat and drink, gives you a personalized plan for what you should eat and drink, and guides you to make better choices.
The AGS Utilities Tool offers schema validation, data validation and conversion of geotechnical AGS files. The API is publicly available for use in stakeholders’ own analysis, processing or software.
This service provides an application programming interface (API) for data scientists, software developers and software applications to query and download BGS-hosted sensor data in machine-readable JSON format. The API is powered by FROST Server and conforms to the OGC SensorThingsAPI specification.
The CARE Tool estimates the operational and embodied carbon emissions associated with reusing and upgrading an existing building or replacing it with new construction. The CARE Tool can be used by policymakers, planners, building owners, developers, heritage building officers, architects, and others who are interested in a pre- or early-design, high-level assessment of the total carbon emissions of building reuse versus replacement.
CO2.js is an open-source JavaScript library that enables developers to estimate the emissions related to use of their apps, websites, and software.
The non-gas map is a detailed map of Great Britain showing the distribution of properties without a gas grid connection across local authorities, LSOAs (lower-level super output areas) and, for registered users, postcodes. For each region, the map displays: Distances from gas grid; Central heating energy source; Energy efficiency measures; Property type; Tenure; Number of rooms; Energy performance rating (EPC)
The data selector search allows users to find UK data. Please note that the greenhouse gas emissions data includes the United Kingdom, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and the Falkland Islands (consistent with reporting to the UNFCCC). For other pollutants, the data includes only the UK and Gibraltar (consistent with UNECE reporting). Data are available back to 1990 for greenhouse gases, 1980 for ammonia and 1970 for all other pollutants. If selecting individual gases, note that methane and nitrous oxide are presented as a mass of gas without accounting for their respective global warming potentials, and CO2 is presented as mass of carbon in CO2, so should be multiplied by 44/12 to convert to a mass of CO2.
This report describes the current status of the Vertical Electromagnetic Profiling, or VEMP tool, that is on loan to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) from Geothermal Energy Research and Development Co., Ltd. (GERD), Japan. The report describes the initial inspection of the tool by LBNL scientists and engineers, and presents a path forward for it to be used at Utah FORGE.
The Case Study Library is the ‘go-to’ resource for certified best practice case studies in the built environment, showcasing some of the world’s most cutting-edge sustainable buildings. Each case study demonstrates outstanding performance of an operational building that complies with at least one of WorldGBC’s three strategic impact areas: Climate Action; Health, Equity & Resilience; and Resources & Circularity.
ORNL has created a building energy model for each of the 178,000 homes and buildings in EPB’s service territories. These models are used to evaluate efficiency and demand response measure and inform EPB programs
The Zero Tool is used to compare an existing or planned building’s energy use intensity (EUI) with similar building types, understand how a building achieved its EUI (via energy efficiency, on-site renewable energy, and/or green power purchases), and set EUI targets.