DOE Open Energy Data Initiative

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This project will provide the opportunity to change how the energy industry accesses and interacts with data from different energy technologies-including solar, wind, water, and smart grid-by leveraging cloud computing to encourage innovation and build capabilities, solutions, and businesses. The project will provide storage repositories with large volumes of widely accessible raw data. The team will leverage open data agreements with key cloud-hosting vendors to host free data sets when possible. It will also partner with cloud-computing providers to share the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) data sets with the largest audience yet so potential power users can use them to add value to the solar industry and the energy industry as a whole. This work will provide an innovative environment for data access and accelerate analysis capabilities for all consumers of DOE energy data.