Dataport hosts all the data collected via Pecan Street’s water and electricity research.
The difference between common one hour, whole-home energy data and Pecan Street’s high frequency, disaggregated data is dramatic.
Consider the following comparison. The first chart shows whole-home, one-hour energy data between 5 pm and midnight – the kind of data readily available from advanced electric meters.
The second chart shows energy use in a home in Pecan Street’s research network on the same day. For this home, data was collected every minute from multiple circuits in the home, giving an incredible minute-by-minute understanding of when — and how — electricity was used.
Dataport provides access to a variety of residential energy and water data collected through Pecan Street’s research network, including:
- whole-home and circuit-level energy use
- one-second circuit-level energy use
- HVAC use
- refrigerator and other appliance use
- electric vehicle charging behavior
- solar generation
- real power, apparent power, THD, voltage, phase angle data
- sub-minute whole-home water use
- household demographic and home survey data
For more information about what kinds of data are available via Dataport, please download the Dataport Metadata document, which shows what types of data are available from each individual home (Data ID) within the Dataport database and the date ranges of available data, and the Metadata Data Dictionary, which provides additional detail.
We’re also very interested in learning more about what the research community would like Pecan Street to focus on. If you have suggestions or feedback about the kinds of research or data we should pursue, please let us know via our Data Feedback form.
3rd Party Data Resources
Dataport also hosts a collection of additional data collected by other institutions that, combined Pecan Street’s data, can yield additional insight. Curated 3rd party datasets include:
Following are federal datasets characterizing changes in Arctic region conditions reported through Data.gov
Arctic Region – Data.gov
- Arctic Ocean Regional Climatology Online Atlas
- Oceanographic profile temperature and salinity measurements collected during the Arctic buoy program using drifting buoy in the Arctic from 1985-1994
- Hydrochemical Atlas of the Arctic Ocean
- Plankton abundance, biomass, temperature, salinity, oxygen measurements collected using bottle from multiple platforms in the Arctic Ocean from 1927 – 1973
- Productivity, chlorophyll a, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and other phytoplankton data from the Arctic Ocean, etc
- US Geological Survey Polar Bear Mark-Recapture Records, Alaska Portion of the Southern Beaufort Sea, 2001-2010
- Geologic Provinces of the Circum-Arctic, 2008 (north of the Arctic Circle)
- AEO – United States Oil and Gas Supply
- ClimoBase – Rouse Canadian Surface Observations of Weather, Climate, and Hydrological Variables, 1984-1998
- Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Daily Arctic Oscillation Index
- Canadian Ice Service Arctic Regional Sea Ice Charts
- Avian Habitat Data
- Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal
- World Glacier Inventory
- Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies
- Unified Sea Ice Thickness 1947-2012
- Temperature, salinity, and other data from Arctic Ocean in 1995
- Sea Ice Edge Location and Extent in Russian Arctic 1933-2006
- Comprehensive Ocean – Atmosphere Data Set – Arctic Subset
- CLPX-Ground – Snow Measurements at the Local Scale Observation Site
- Chemical and isotopic tracers and other data from the Arctic
- Barometric pressure and other data from the Arctic
- Arctic Sea Ice Freeboad and Thickness
- Baseline average air temperature for Alaska and Western Canada (1961-1990
- Airborne Surface Profiling of Alaskan Glaciers
- Arctic Sea Ice Charts from Danish Meteorological Institute 1893-1956
- Arctic Bathymetry
Climate – NASA
- REGIONAL AIR-SEA INTERACTION (RASI) – GULF OF PAPAGAYO
- REGIONAL AIR-SEA INTERACTION (RASI) – GULF OF PANAMA
- REGIONAL AIR-SEA INTERACTION (RASI) – GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC
- Africa Soil Information Service
Climate – NOAA
- U.S. Hourly Precipitation Data
- U.S. Storm Events
- U.S. Average Annual Precipitation 1961-2009
- US Daily Climate Normals (1981-2010)
- US Hourly Climate Normals (1981-2010)
- US Monthly Climate Normals (1981-2010)
- US Annual:Seasonal Climate Normals (1981-2010)
Climate – Data.gov
- US Monthly Climate Normals (1981-2010)
- US Hourly Precipitation Data
- United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN) Quality Controlled Datasets
Coastal Flooding – Data.gov
- Sea Level Rise
- Seal Level Trends
- NOS Hydro
- isti_global_surface_temp
- Outgoing Longwave Radiation
- global_surface_summary
- ESI Maps
- USGS Maps
- ghcn_m_v3
- monthly_global_historical_climatology_network
- sovi_census_tracts_2010
- oisst
- Storm Events
Power plant generation and emissions – Dept. of Energy
- Form EIA-923 detailed data
- Generator number and capacity
- Environ Equip quantity and net summer capacity
- Average flue gas desulfurization costs
- Emissions from energy consumption at conv and comb heat and power
Water – Data.gov
- Climate Reference Network Data Visualizations
- Attr for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1)
- NCDC Storm Events Database
- Base-flow index grid for the conterminous United States
- US Hourly Precipitation Data
Climate/Health – Data.gov
- Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI)
- Work Related Lung Disease Surveillance System (eWoRLD)
- VitalStats
- cropscape cropland data layer
- National Outbreak Reporting System
- MyPyramid Food Raw Data
- Livestock & Meat Domestic Data
- Methane Flux
- Investigation of bacterial pathogens associated with concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)
- NNDSS Tables
- CDC Data
- International Food Security
- Global Annual Average PM2.5 Grids from MODIS and MISR Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
- Food Safety Information RSS feed
- Food Price Outlook
- Food Expenditures
- Food Environment Atlas
- CMS Statistics
- Drainage Basins Used for Assessing Trends in Concentration of Pesticides in Streams of the United States, 1992-2010
- Cost Estimates of Foodborne Illnesses
- Arsenic in Ground Water of the United States