This repository contains URL links & descriptions to a collection of energy-related data sources for Ireland.
All of the data listed here is either open access or is accessible via an application process with the relevant body (these sources will be marked explicitely as Available upon request).
Have a new data source to add? Great! Please follow the how-to-contribute guide below and submit it.
Found a broken data source URL? Excellent! Please follow the how-to-contribute guide below and submit it fixed or removed.
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- Table of Contents
- Data Catalogues
- Energy Consumption
- Building Fabric
- Appliance Usage
- Geodata
- Benchmarks
- Emissions, Waste and Landfill
- How to Contribute?
- "The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) is Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data acquisition, preservation, and dissemination. Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide access to quantitative datasets in the social sciences, and to advance the promotion of international comparative studies of the Irish economy and Irish society."
- https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/
- Compilation of energy related publications for the United Kingdom
- https://ukerc.rl.ac.uk/DC/cgi-bin/edc_search.pl?GoButton=Related&WantComp=40
Available upon request- Electricity meter data at 15-minute resolution for a sample of 5,000 Irish homes and businesses between 2009-10
- Gas meter data at 15-minute resolution for a representative sample of nearly 2,000 Irish homes between 2010-11
- https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/commissionforenergyregulationcer/
- Annual Gas consumption data for all Irish Power Plants, Residential & Non-Residential
- https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/climateandenergy/networkedgasconsumption/
- Annual Gas & Electricity data for Emissions Trading System (ETS) industrial buildings
- http://epa.ie/licensing/
- "The goal of Mortar is to provide a large, diverse and consistently updated testbed of buildings and building data to facilitate reproducible evaluation of building analytics. At this time, Mortar contains 107 buildings, spanning over 10 billion data points and 26,000 data streams."
- https://mortardata.org/
- Building data (period built, dwelling type ...) for all households in Ireland who participated in the 2016 Census at areas of population generally comprising between 80 and 120 dwellings.
- https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2016reports/census2016smallareapopulationstatistics/
- Building data (type of heating, building geometry ...) for all households in Ireland who have had their household's BER rating evaluated.
- Updated nightly
- https://ndber.seai.ie/BERResearchTool/Register/Register.aspx
- Building data (floor areas ...) for all Commercial buildings in Ireland
- Note: Apply benchmarks to these floor areas to estimate commercial building energy usage
- https://opendata.valoff.ie/api/
- "The United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2014-2015 (UKTUS) is a large-scale household survey that provides data on how people aged 8 years and over in the UK spend their time. At the heart of the survey is a time diary instrument in which respondents record their daily activities. Time diaries record events sequences for prescribed periods, usually a single day."
- https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8128
Available upon request- Survey of participants links typical appliance usage to building IDs
- https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/commissionforenergyregulationcer/
- Mappable (in QGIS) geometries for all Small Areas.
- https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2016reports/census2016smallareapopulationstatistics/
- Mappable (in QGIS) shapefile geometries for all Dublin Postcodes.
- https://github.com/rdmolony/dublin-postcode-shapefiles)
- Commercial sector building fossil fuel and electricity benchmarks by building type
- https://www.metrocommercial.co.uk/images/resources/CIBSE_TM46_Energy%20Benchmarks.pdf
- Industrial Emissions, Waste & Landfill
- As part of their licencing and permits companies have to submit an annual environmental report which captures emissions (not only GHGs) and also asks for energy use.
- http://epa.ie/licensing/
If you find a data source that is missing from the list, please edit the ReadMe file and submit a pull request.
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