New River Light and Power Data: A Data Ecosystem for Electric Power Systems Research

The work includes carefully cleaning, documenting, preparing and enriching 12+ years of non-personally identifiable substation data for the 5 substations managed by New River Light and Power (NRLP), a non-profit electric utility operated by Appalachian State University's Division of Business Affairs. This data includes bulk summary data for the aggregate 8,000+ meters NRLP manages with a record of the total energy used per substation for each hour of day. This data has been enriched with matching hourly weather and solar radiation data, town daily water and sewer flows to measure town occupancy, a list of university and community events likely to influence power consumption, and a description of each substation region.