Open Sustainable Technology

A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.

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OpenEVSE WiFi gateway

Uses an ESP8266 (ESP-12) which communicates with the OpenEVSE controller via serial utilizing the existing RAPI API serial interface.

emoncms esp8266 evse mqtt-client openenergymonitor openevse wifi

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.4

Open Energy Platform

Aims to ensure quality, transparency and reproducibility in energy system research. It is a collection of various tools and information and that help working with energy-related data.

database django energy oep open-data open-energy-family rest-api

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.8

OperatorFabric

A modular, extensible, industrial-strength and field-tested platform for use in electricity, water and other utility operations.

alerting collaboration energy hypervision linux-foundation platform

Energy Systems - Energy Monitoring and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.8

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project

Makes the US' energy data easier to access and use.

cems climate coal ddj eia eia860 eia923 electricity emissions energy epa etl ferc ghg natural-gas open-data pudl python sqlite utility

Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.1

goat

A tool capable of modeling walking and cycling accessibility.

accessibility-analysis accessiblity-scenarios cycling isochrones mobility walking

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.5

Model My Watershed

A watershed-modeling web app for citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, educators, and students.

civic-apps-team hydrology stormwater watersheds

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.6

MaaS Global

Mobility as a Service API - data model, tests and validation.

mobility mobility-as-a-service transportation

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.6

Mission Support System

A collaboration server to plan atmospheric research flights.

conda-forge flight-planning mission-support-system python

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.4

DALES

Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation model.

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.2

Grid Singularity Energy Exchange

An interface to download and deploy interconnected, grid-aware energy marketplaces.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.1

DeepIceDrain

Mapping and monitoring deep subglacial water activity in Antarctica using remote sensing and machine learning.

analysis-ready-data antarctica big-data binder datashader hdf5 ice-sheet icesat-2 intake jupyter-lab open-science pygmt python3 zarr

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.8

Tree Mapper App

Tree Mapper extends the Plant-for-the-Planet App and allows on site coordinate submission during plantation.

climate-change plant react-native reforestation

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.2

Kepler

Uses eBPF to probe energy related system stats and exports as Prometheus metrics.

cloud-native ebpf energy-consumption energy-efficiency energy-monitor kubernetes machine-learning prometheus prometheus-exporter sustainability

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.8

oemof-solph

A model generator for energy system modeling and optimization.

energy energy-system modelling modelling-framework

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.6

WEIS

WEIS is a framework that combines multiple tools to enable design optimization of floating offshore wind turbines.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.6

pywatershed

A sustainable integrated, hydrologic modeling framework for the U.S. Geological Survey.

hydrology modflow modflow6 prms python surfacehydrology swb water

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.4

The IDAES Toolkit

Aims to provide multi-scale, simulation-based, open source computational tools and models to support the design, analysis, optimization, scale-up, operation and troubleshooting of innovative, advanced energy systems.

chemical-engineering process-modeling process-systems-engineering

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.7

waiwera

A parallel, open-source geothermal flow simulator.

geothermal parallel petsc reservoir-modeling reservoir-simulation

Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.8

modelica-ibpsa

A Modelica library for building and district energy systems developed within IBPSA Project 1.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.4

TECA

The Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis, contains a collection of climate anlysis algorithms targetted at extreme event detection and analysis.

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.3

pyrealm

Providing an integrated toolbox for modelling plant productivity, growth and demography using Python.

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0

VAPOR

The Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere and Solar Researchers.

atmosphere science visualization

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.7

BETYdb

Web-interface to the Biofuel Ecophysiological Traits and Yields Database.

agriculture crops database ecosystem-models pecan phenotyping plants postgis ruby trait

Renewable Energy - Bioenergy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.4

OpenStudio

A cross-platform collection of software tools to support whole building energy modeling using EnergyPlus and advanced daylight analysis using Radiance.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.8

OpenDrift

A software for modeling the trajectories and fate of objects or substances drifting in the ocean, or even in the atmosphere.

ocean ocean-modelling python trajectory

Hydrosphere - Waves and Currents - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.6

Brick

An open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions of the physical, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

AixLib

A Modelica model library for building performance simulations.

hacktoberfest

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

ModBus Measurement Daemon

A daemon for collecting measurement data from smart meters and grid inverters over modbus.

golang grid-inverters modbus modbus-meters openhab smart-meter sunspec volkszaehler

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.8

matpower

A package of M-files for solving power flow, continuation power flow and optimal power flow problems using MATLAB or Octave.

matpower matpower-github

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.9

weather-tools

A series of command-line tools to make common data engineering tasks easier for researchers in climate and weather.

apache-beam python weather

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.2

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.

carbon-accounting carbon-emissions climate climate-change decarbonization eia electricity emissions epa ghg ghg-emissions open-data power-systems python

Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.9

pvoutput

Python code for downloading PV data from PVOutput.org.

nowcasting pvoutput python python-library solar

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.2

HiSim

Simulation and analysis of household scenarios using modern components as alternative to fossil fuel based ones.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.7

resstock

Helping states, municipalities, utilities, and manufacturers identify which building stock improvements save the most energy and money.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.7

kube-green

A k8s operator to reduce CO2 footprint of your clusters.

climate-change cloud-native downscale green-software hacktoberfest k8s kubernetes resources

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.6

nasa-wildfires

Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).

data-journalism firms geojson geospatial journalism nasa news python remote-sensing satellite-imagery satellites wildfires

Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.6

PyPSA

A free software toolbox for simulating and optimizing modern power systems that include features such as conventional generators with unit commitment, variable wind and solar generation, storage units, coupling to other energy sectors, and mixed alternating and direct current networks.

capacity-expansion-planning clean-energy climate-change electrical-engineering energy energy-system energy-systems loadflow optimal-power-flow optimisation power-flow power-systems power-systems-analysis powerflow pyomo pypsa python renewable-energy renewables

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.3

Transportr

The public transport companion that respects your privacy and your freedom.

android-app map public-transportation

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.0

ORBIT

Offshore Renewable Balance-of-system Installation Tool computes capital costs and activity times for offshore wind plant balance-of-system (everything besides the turbine) costs.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8

MHKiT-Python

Provides the marine renewable energy community tools for data processing, visualization, quality control, resource assessment, and device performance.

marine-renewable-energy mhkit mhkit-python python quality-control visualization

Renewable Energy - Hydro Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.4

Planetary Computer Data Catalog

Combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs and a flexible scientific environment.

aiforearth

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8

Safecast

Building out a network of sensors to monitor particulate matter in sizes PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10.

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.9

Forest Carbon database

Global Forest Carbon Database.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.2

WWCP_OCPP

Connectivity between the World Wide Charging Protocol (WWCP) and the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP v1.6/v2.0).

charging chargingstation e-mobility ocpp

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.0

reV

Enables the efficient and scalable computation of renewable energy generation, levelized cost of energy, application of geospatial exclusion layers, and generation of renewable energy supply curves.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.5

GEOS-Chem

Advance understanding of human and natural influences on the environment through a comprehensive, state-of-the-science, readily accessible global model of atmospheric composition.

aerosols atmospheric-chemistry atmospheric-chemistry-modeling atmospheric-composition atmospheric-modelling aws bash-script carbon-cycle climate cloud-computing configuration earth-system-modeling fortran greenhouse-gases integration-tests mercury methane particulate-matter run-directory scientific-computing

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8

Juelich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code

The Juelich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code (JURASSIC) is a fast infrared radiative transfer model for the analysis of atmospheric remote sensing measurements.

atmosphere atmospheric-science high-performance-computing infrared meteorology radiative-transfer remote-sensing stratosphere troposphere

Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.0

OneBusAway

The Open Source platform for Real Time Transit Info.

android java onebusaway open-transit-software-foundation public-transportation transit

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

PISM

The Parallel Ice Sheet Model is an open source, parallel, high-resolution ice sheet model.

c-plus-plus climate geophysics glacier ice-sheet mpi numerical parallel petsc python scientific-computing sea-level sphinx

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.1

OpenStudio-HPXML

Modeling of residential buildings in EnergyPlus using OpenStudio/HPXML.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Metview Python bindings

Python interface to Metview, a meteorological workstation and batch system for accessing, examining, manipulating and visualising meteorological data.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.1

GHEtool

GHEtool is an open source Python package that contains all the functionalities needed to deal with borefield design.

borefields energy geothermal geothermal-energy sizing storage

Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.9

BEAM

The Framework for Modeling Behavior, Energy, Autonomy, and Mobility in Transportation Systems.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Scaphandre

An open source software agent to track energy consumption of ICT services from the servers.

carbon-footprint electricity electricity-consumption electricity-meter energy energy-consumption energy-efficiency energy-monitor greenit hacktoberfest measure prometheus qemu rust rust-lang sustainability virtual-machine virtual-machines wattmeter watts

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6

sentinelhub-py

Download and process satellite imagery in Python using Sentinel Hub services.

aws ogc-services python-library satellite-imagery sentinel-hub

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.8

cultionet

A library for semantic segmentation of cultivated land using a neural network.

agriculture cropland crops deep-learning fields land-cover pytorch pytorch-lightning remote-sensing satellite

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.1

mobility-data-specification

A data standard to enable communication between mobility companies and local governments.

bike-share bike-sharing bikesharing carshare cities delivery delivery-robot geofencing mds micromobility mobility mobility-as-a-service mobility-data open-source passenger-services policy-as-code right-of-way scooter-sharing scooters taxi

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.3

CityLearn

Official reinforcement learning environment for demand response and load shaping.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.2

fgeo

Analyze forest diversity and dynamics.

abundance demography dynamic dynamics ecology fgeo forestgeo forests habitat metapackage tree

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.3

Trefle

A botanical JSON REST API for plants species, allowing you to search and query over all the registered species, and build the next gardening apps and farming robots.

api-rest biodiversity database farming-robots gardening-apps hacktoberfest plants plants-species trefle trefle-api

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.8

CMAQ

Code base for the U.S. EPA's Community Multiscale Air Quality Model.

ord

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.8

Buhayra

Obtaining water extent of small reservoirs in semi-arid regions from satellite data in real-time.

dams filters iwrm reservoirs sentinel

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.0

co2-data

Data on CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions by Our World in Data.

co2-emissions energy environment greenhouse-gas-emissions

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.2

BioSNICAR

Predicts the spectral albedo of snow and glacier ice between 200nm to 5000nm given information about the illumination conditions, ice structure and the type and concentration particulates.

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.5

OpenPlantPathology

Open Plant Pathology is an initiative that supports and promotes the spread of all open, transparent and reproducible practices in the field of plant pathology.

openplantpathology reproducible-research

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.9

Dispa-SET

Allows to model a power system at any level of detail e.g. micro-grid, region, country, continent.

dispatch power python

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.4

pyglow

A Python module that wraps several upper atmosphere climatological models written in FORTRAN.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.2

Is-Vegan

Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan / non-vegan.

food ingredients npm vegan

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.3

Transactive Energy Service System

A platform to design, deploy, and operate transactive energy systems in electric utility retail environments.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8

Forest Structural Complexity Tool

Allowing plot scale measurements to be extracted automatically from most high-resolution forest point clouds from a variety of sensor sources.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.4

GWHAT

A free, open source, and cross-platform interactive computer program whose main focus is the interpretation of observation well hydrographs.

groundwater-recharge hydrographs soil-water-balance well-hydrograph

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.7

DeepBedMap

Using a deep neural network to better resolve the bed topography of Antarctica.

antarctica bedmap binder chainer data-science deep-neural-network digital-elevation-model flat-file-db generative-adversarial-network glaciology jupyter-notebook optuna pangeo remote-sensing super-resolution

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.4

rGEDI

An R Package for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Data Visualization and Processing.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.4

FIREDpy

Classifying fire events from the Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product.

Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2

GEMPAK

Analysis and product generation for meteorological data.

data-visualization forecasting gempak goes goes16 goes17 grib gridded-data meteorology netcdf4 radar satellite unidata weather

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.3

fgeo.biomass

Calculate biomass with allometric equations from the allodb package and ForestGEO data.

Biosphere - Biomass - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.5

GeoThermalCloud.jl

A repository containing all the data and codes required to demonstrate applications of machine learning methods for geothermal exploration.

geothermal julia machine-learning unsupervised-machine-learning

Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

wopr

An R package and Shiny application to provide API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository.

bayesian-methods population-model r-package shiny-apps

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.7

Climate Policy Radar Open Data

The full text of thousands of climate laws and policies from around the world.

Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Power Grid Lib

This benchmark library is curated and maintained by the IEEE PES Task Force on Benchmarks for Validation of Emerging Power System Algorithms and is designed to evaluate a well established version of the AC Optimal Power Flow problem.

benchmark dataset matpower optimal-power-flow

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.7

quetzal_germany

A four step transport model for Germany using the quetzal transport modeling suite.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 2.7

CSHShydRology

This is a collection of R functions used by the Canadian Association Society for Hydrological Sciences.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

PowerGAMA

A lightweight simulation tool for high level analyses of renewable energy integration in large power systems.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

pyWaPOR

Data manual and Algorithm to compute the evapotranspiration of large areas using remote sensing data.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

SWAT

The Soil & Water Assessment Tool is a small watershed to river basin-scale model used to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land use, land management practices, and climate change.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

IPCC-WG1-Code

Code and Data of the Physical Science Basis Working Group (WG1) as part of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Climate Data Store Toolbox

Dive into this wealth of information about the Earth's past, present and future climate.

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

DORiE

A Discontinuous Galerkin Solver for Soil Water Flow and Passive Solute Transport Based on DUNE.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Recyclebot

An open source waste plastic extruder that creates 3D printer filament from waste plastic and natural polymers.

Industrial Ecology - Circular Economy and Waste - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Open Models

This page lists energy models published under open source licenses.

Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Backbone

A generic energy network optimization tool written in GAMS.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

OMEGAlpes

Aims to be an energy systems modeling tool for linear optimization (LP, MILP).

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Open Energy System Databases

Employ open data methods to collect, clean, and republish energy-related datasets for open use.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Global Wind Atlas

Immediately start exploring windy areas.

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0