Global Socio-Economic and Environmental data for PyPSA-Earth: An Open Optimisation Model of the Earth Energy System.

<strong>PyPSA-Earth </strong>is an open model dataset of the global power system at different network levels that cover our Earth. The African model can be built using the code provided at https://github.com/pypsa-meets-africa/pypsa-africa. Other regions follow soon under the same code base. Since the GitHub codebase is not suited for handling large changing files, we provide here separate <strong>data bundles and cutouts</strong> to be downloaded and extracted as noted in the documentation The below-provided<strong> data files </strong>contain various open data for improving energy system modelling decisions. A thorough description with license restrictions will follow soon.