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Data availiability #7

Closed cshjin closed 9 years ago

cshjin commented 10 years ago

Two parts of data need in the model One is the electricity consumption of a specific location, for example the hourly consumption data of Chicago area. U.S. Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/

Another data is related to weather, may be both historical and forecast date are need. National Climate Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

cshjin commented 10 years ago

The electricity data in EIA on http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.cfm

EIA does not publish hourly data on electricity generation, demand, or prices. The information in “Learn more” section below contains the type of data that EIA has published. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) publishes charts with daily hourly load/demand profiles for some Independent System Operators /Regional Transmission Organizations (ISO/RTO).

An also in the recent survey, EIA will post hourly data if proposed and complemented.

A new survey, the EIA-930, is proposed to collect hourly information on the operation of the power system, with load data to be collected and published by EIA in near real-time.

The data part of electricity will include: Summary Sales (consumption), revenue, prices & customers Generation and thermal output Electric power plants generating capacity Consumption of fuels used to generate electricity Receipts of fossil-fuels for electricity generation Average cost of fossil-fuels for electricity generation Fossil-fuel stocks for electricity generation Revenue and expense statistics for... Electricity purchases, sales for resale, imports/exports, reliability Demand, capacity resources, and capacity margins Demand-side management program Electricity and the environment

cshjin commented 10 years ago

There are two resources can be applied, one is from NREL renewable resources data center, another one is from NOAA National Climate Data Center

For NREL, we can get TMY3 data online, specifically, for example, such as solar irradiation part, we can get from http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2005/tmy3/by_state_and_city.html and chooose Chicago 725340 for example. It will include hourly statistics solar irradiation.

For NOAA, we can order the desired data online, and the website will send data through email. Also, A ftp data server is also available for use. For example, solar data: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/nsrdb-solar/ . A example I order is hourly normal CSV of 2010 Chicago data, which include

HLY-PRES-NORMAL - Sea level pressure mean
HLY-CLOD-PCTBKN - Clouds broken percentage
HLY-DEWP-90PCTL - Dew point 90th percentile
HLY-WIND-2NDDIR - Secondary wind direction (1-8)
HLY-WIND-1STPCT - Prevailing wind percentage
HLY-DEWP-NORMAL - Dew point mean
HLY-CLDH-NORMAL - Cooling degree hours
HLY-PRES-10PCTL - Sea level pressure 10th percentile
HLY-WIND-VCTSPD - Mean wind vector magnitude
HLY-WIND-1STDIR - Prevailing wind direction (1-8)
HLY-TEMP-90PCTL - Temperature 90th percentile
HLY-HTDH-NORMAL - Heating degree hours
HLY-WIND-AVGSPD - Average wind speed
HLY-WIND-VCTDIR - Mean wind vector direction
HLY-TEMP-10PCTL - Temperature 10th percentile
HLY-HIDX-NORMAL - Heat index mean
HLY-WIND-2NDPCT - Secondary wind percentage
HLY-CLOD-PCTSCT - Clouds scattered percentage
HLY-WIND-PCTCLM - Percentage calm
HLY-TEMP-NORMAL - Temperature mean
HLY-WCHL-NORMAL - Wind chill mean
HLY-PRES-90PCTL - Sea level pressure 90th percentile
HLY-CLOD-PCTFEW - Clouds few percentage
HLY-DEWP-10PCTL - Dew point 10th percentile
HLY-CLOD-PCTOVC - Clouds overcast percentage
HLY-CLOD-PCTCLR - Clouds clear percentage

An explanation doc here: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/NORMAL_HLY_documentation.pdf Any other type data can be accessed by look up http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links#loc-clim Additionally, http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page is OpenEi, which powered by NREL, provide both project and data for public.

cshjin commented 9 years ago

Weather from weather underground, Solar from NREL, Demand from statistical result of local resident

Update as needed

cshjin commented 9 years ago

Another real-time weather data is from NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and can be accessed through plaintext

Note: this data update every 5 minutes.

cshjin commented 9 years ago

Okay for now, it could be opened again if anyone has much more good ideals.