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Tip for working with approvals on OpenEI
Posted: 11 Jun 2013 - 10:33 by Rmckeel

The "ApprovedRevs" extension is the feature on OpenEI that allows crowd-sourced data to be quality-controlled (approved) in a formal fashion. The incentive & policy (including EZFeed data) and utility rate sections use this feature.

Group: Utility Rate, Developer

Tags: EZFeed, Utility Rates
Lighting Electricity Rates on OpenEI
Posted: 31 May 2013 - 13:04 by Sfomail

Group: Utility Rate, Developer

Tags: API, Utility Rates
Introducing FRED, Enabling Unique Visualization and Manipulation of Energy Data at Multiple Scales
Posted: 20 May 2013 - 14:28 by Sfederspiel

The U.S. Department of Energy, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Planetary Skin Institute recently released a new open platform hosted by OpenEI which enables state and local governments, agencies, corporations, and other energy analysts to effectively visualize energy use data and make energy data more useful for decision-making processes.

Group: OpenEI Community Central, FRED, Energy Data Initiative (EDI)

Tags: FRED, Free Energy Data, Map, OpenEI, Tool, Visualization
EIA officially recognizes utility rate database on OpenEI
Posted: 17 May 2013 - 13:42 by Sfomail

Good news, everyone! The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) now officially recognizes the OpenEI utility rate database. Up until just a few months ago, the EIA website stated:

Group: Utility Rate, Developer, Energy Data Initiative (EDI)

Tags: EIA, OpenEI, Utility Rates
Commercial and Residential Hourly Load Data Now Available on OpenEI!
Posted: 17 May 2013 - 13:03 by Sfomail

Image source: NREL

Group: Utility Rate, OpenEI Community Central, Energy Data Initiative (EDI)

Tags: building load, building load data, commercial load, data, dataset, datasets, electric load data, load data, load profile, OpenEI, residential load, TMY3, United States
Utility Rates API Version 2 is Live!
Posted: 17 May 2013 - 12:14 by Sfomail

After several months of development and testing, the next generation web service for the utility rate database is finally here! I encourage you to check out the V2 Utility Rates API at http://en.openei.org/services/doc/rest/util_rates

Group: Utility Rate, Developer

Tags: API, developer, OpenEI, update, utility, Utility Companies, utility rate, Utility Rates, version 1, version 2, version 3, web service
Multicolor Maps from Compound Queries
Posted: 16 May 2013 - 15:22 by Jweers

Hi all,
Recently, a couple of people on OpenEI have asked me how to do compound (or multicolor) maps like this one:

Group: OpenEI Community Central, Developer

Tags: ask queries, compound queries, developer, Google maps, maps, multicolor, result formats, results, Semantic Mediawiki
GRR 2nd Quarter - Stakeholder Update Meeting
Posted: 2 May 2013 - 15:06 by Kyoung

Last week, we held the GRR Stakeholder Update at the Denver Renaissance Hotel in Denver, CO. The meeting was well-attended with over 50 attendees, including in-person and webinar attendance. Thanks to all who attended!

Presentation
During the meeting, we reviewed the current status of the GRR efforts, including:
* Roadmap Development: expansion to Colorado and Texas
* Regulatory Analyses: including NEPA, Funding Mechanisms, and Permit Coordination Offices

Group: Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap

Tags: analysis, Categorical Exclusions, Coordinating Permit Office, Cost Mechanisms, Cost Recovery, geothermal, NEPA, permitting, quarterly meeting, White Papers
OpenEI Showcased in Geothermal Exploration Best Practices Workshop
Posted: 26 Apr 2013 - 12:05 by Graham7781

This week, Denver hosted the US DOE Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) 2013 Peer Review. The purpose of the peer review is to offer geothermal stakeholders an opportunity to learn about the projects funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) across a wide spectrum of technical complexity and funding magnitude, from research and development to demonstration and analysis.

Group: OpenEI Community Central

Tags: DOE, geothermal, GTO, OpenEI
OpenEI launches new Water Power Gateway and Community Forum
Posted: 28 Mar 2013 - 16:16 by Graham7781

OpenEI has launched a new Water Power Gateway, which contains links to critical public data sets, up-to-date information on technologies and events, a community forum to discuss topics of interest, links to major research and industry reports, and more.

Group: Water Power Forum

Tags: community, forum, gateway, OpenEI, Water power