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, Download
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
Weather data source: Contributed by Xiao Zhang at Google, Link
Electric Vehicles
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 SystemsLink
Data Simulator
Matpower: Steady state power flow simulation and optimizatin for Matlab
OpenDSS: Distribution system simulator of EPRI: Only available for Windows
Gridlab-D: Homepage: Wiki
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