Reports and Journal Articles

October, 2021
Report | Put Gas on Standby
Carbon Tracker Initiative
Jonathan Sims, et al.

January, 2021
Report | Carbon Stranding: Climate Risk and Stranded Assets in Duke’s Integrated Resource Plan
Energy Transition Institute
Tyler Fitch; edited by Tyler H. Norris

November, 2020
Commentary | Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts
Joule
Joseph F. DeCarolis, et al.

August, 2020
Report | Economic & Clean Energy Benefits of Establishing a Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market in the Southeast United States
Vibrant Clean Energy & Energy Innovation
Christopher Clack, Aditya Choukulkar, Brianna Coté, and Sarah A. McKee

July, 2020
Journal Article | Parameterizing open-source energy models: Statistical learning to estimate unknown power plant attributes
Applied Energy vol. 269
John E.T. Bistline and James H. Merrick

May, 2020
Report | The Economics of Flexible Solar for Electricity Markets in Transition
First Solar
Steven Dahlke, Mahesh Morjaria, Vahan Gevorgian, and Barry Mather

2020
Conference Paper | Accelerated Data Discovery for Scalable Climate Action
International Conference on Learning Representations
Henning Schwabe, Sumeet Sandhu, and Sergy Grebenshchkov

December, 2018
Report | Utility Financial Transition Impacts: From Fossil to Clean
Energy Innovation
Ron Lehr

News & Media

August 6, 2020
Interview | Interview with Priya Donti, Co-founder and Chair, Climate Change AI
AI Time Journal
A.M. Aditya

“Our organization is trying to address this data challenge by consolidating information about relevant public data sources where they exist, and funding the creation of research-ready datasets where there are gaps. There are also a number of other excellent initiatives — such as Climate TRACE, the Global Energy Data Commons, Icebreaker One, and the Public Utility Data Liberation project, to name a few.”
_— Priya Donti

June 8, 2020
Blog Post | Comparing FERC and EIA Electricity Demand Data
Tyler Ruggles’ Blog, Carnegie Institute of Science
Tyler Ruggles

“One of our collaborators, Zane Selvans (@ZaneSelvans) of the Catalyst Cooperative (@CatalystCoop), mapped the ~200 FERC respondents to the ~70 EIA BAs and arranged the FERC data into a more usable format. With this, we compared the hourly demand values for the successfully mapped BAs for 2017.”

February 10, 2020
Article | Open-Source Energy Projects in Python You Need to Know About
Towards Data Science
Kyle Baranko

“This team is solving a huge problem: organizing all this data and transforming it into machine-readable format. In a similar ethos to the Power Genome project (which uses PUDL), Catalyst Cooperative is aiming to lower the barriers to entry for energy system analysis and make these resources available for all to use.”

July 24, 2018
Interactive Map & Article | Mapped: The US Nuclear Power Plants at ‘Risk’ of Shutting Down
Carbon Brief
Zeke Hausfather

“Carbon Brief also analysed 30 financial reports from individual nuclear plants submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) obtained through the Public Utility Data Liberation Project. These plants generally reported average operating expenses (excluding ongoing capital improvements) of between $19 and $61 per MWh between 2010 and 2016, with a median cost of $26 per MWh – the same as the average number found in the EIA data.”