Open Grid Emissions Dataset

The Open Grid Emissions Initiative seeks to fill a critical need for high-quality, publicly-accessible, hourly grid emissions data that can be used for GHG accounting, policymaking, academic research, and energy attribute certificate markets. The initiative includes this repository of open-source grid emissions data processing tools that use peer-reviewed, well-documented, and validated methodologies to create the accompanying public dataset of hourly, monthly, and annual U.S. electric grid generation, GHG, and air pollution data. Data Structure <code>data/downloads</code> contains all files that are downloaded by functions in <code>load_data</code> <code>data/manual</code> contains all manually-created files, including the egrid static tables <code>data/outputs</code> contains intermediate outputs from the data pipeline... any files created by our code that are not final results <code>data/results</code> contains all final output files that will be published <strong>Using the archived files</strong> The outputs and results files have been saved as separate zip folders for each year. We did not archive the manual or downloads folder since the manual files are archived as part of the v0.1.0 code release, and downloading these files using v0.1.0 of the code should return versioned results. The exception to this is the pudl.sqlite database, which is downloaded from the datasette version of pudl and thus changes over time. If you would like to replicate these results, run the pipeline to download all of the data inputs using version 0.1.0 of the code. Once those files are downloaded, replace the downloaded `data/downloads/pudl/pudl_data/sqlite/pudl.sqlite` file with the archived version.