Data Source
Power Data

Solar Generation

  • National Solar Radiation Data Base 1961-1990 (NSRDB): NSRDB contains 30 years of solar radiation and supplementary meteorological data from 237 NWS sites in the U.S., plus sites in Guam and Puerto Rico, Link

  • PVWatts Calculator: Estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems throughout the world, Link

  • Denver Solar TAC data: SolarTAC includes common areas for performance validation testing of new solar energy system components, including areas for proprietary testing by Member Companies, Sampling period: 10 minutes, 2011, Link

Wind Generation

  • GECAD wind speed data: The data-base includes the values of the wind speed, recorded with time intervals of 10 minutes during the entire year of 2011, Link

  • Ninja: Renewables.ninja allows you to run simulations of the hourly power output from wind and solar power plants located anywhere in the world, Link

Load (Consumption)

  • PJM Hourly Energy Consumption data: PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) is a regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States. It is part of the Eastern Interconnection grid operating an electric transmission system serving all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, Link

  • ADRES data: The research project ADRES-Concept deals with the technical feasibility of fully autonomous-decentralized renewable energy systems, Real and reactive powers collected at 1 sec frequency, The data contains measurements of 7 days' in summer and 7 days' in winter, Link

  • Randomized Hourly Load Data for use with Taxonomy Distribution Feeders: Hourly load profile for Gridlab-D Taxonomy distribution feeders, Link, Download

Weather Data

Distribution Grid Test Case Data

  • IEEE Distribution Test Feeders: Link

  • EPRI Test Circuits: Link , Available in OpenDSS format

  • Gridlab-D Taxonomy of Prototypical Feeders: Link, Map, Available in Gridlab-D format

  • REDS: Repository of Distribution Systems: Link

  • UKGDS: United Kingdom Generic Distribution System: Link, the original link is broken.

  • European Distribution System Oprators Observatory: Link, Available in Matpower format, Need to request the test cases

Other Data Websites for Power Areas

  • Open Data Sets by IEEE PES Subcommittee on Big Data & Analytics for Power Systems: Link, White Paper

  • Open Data Sets by IEEE PES Subcommittee on Intelligent Systems: Link

Data Simulator
Other Data Sets for Cyber Physical Systems
  • Kaggle: Link

  • UCI Machine Learning Repository: Link

  • Google Dataset Search: Link

  • Data.Gov: Link

  • Datahub.io: Link

  • AWS Dataset: Link

  • Earth Data: Link

  • CERN Open Data Portal: Link

  • Data.world: Link

Learning Source
  • How to Write a Scientific Paper? Link

  • UIUC Power System Lecture Notes: Link

  • VISDOM: Visualization and Insight System for Demand Operations and Management: Link, require data to let it run


Partially Contributed by Gyoungjae(Ted) Kim and Yizheng Liao from Github Repo.