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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Grid Singularity Energy Exchange

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

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.1

Principles of Green Software Engineering

Are a core set of competencies needed to define, build and run sustainable software applications.

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9

RC_BuildingSimulator

A Resistance Capacitance Model for an Energetic Simulation of a Building.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.4

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.4

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

bcgroundwater

An R package to facilitate analysis and visualization of groundwater data from the British Columbia groundwater observation well network.

data-science env r rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.1

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.1

The Application Domain Extension

Defines a standardized data model based on CityGML format for urban energy analyses, aiming to be a reference exchange data format between different urban modeling tools and expert databases.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

REISE.jl

Renewable Energy Integration Simulation Engine.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0

Soil-Water-Balance

A Modified Thornthwaite-Mather Soil-Water-Balance Code for Estimating Groundwater Recharge.

deep-percolation fortran groundwater-recharge soil-water-balance usgs

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.1

rwlts

Support governments in making decisions about the impact of human activities on the environment, planning the use of natural resources, conserving biodiversity and monitoring climate change.

earth-observation earth-science geoinformatics geoscience geospatial land-cover r trajectory

Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.4

digital_wra_data_standard

This standard data model and associated tools are intended as universal building blocks for Wind Energy Resource Assessment applications.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.9

CryoGrid3

A one-dimensional land surface model dedicated to simulate ground temperatures in permafrost environments.

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Open Modeling Framework

A set of Python libraries for simulating power systems behavior with an emphasis on cost-benefit analysis of emerging technologies.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.8

IceVarFigs

Weather and climate graphics for science communication.

arctic-sea-ice climate-change climate-variability scicomm sea-ice-thickness

Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.0

USelectricity

Forecast the US demand for electricity.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

emobility-smart-charging

Smart charging algorithms with REST API for electric vehicle fleets.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3

rl-testbed-for-energyplus

Reinforcement Learning Testbed for Power Consumption Optimization using EnergyPlus.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.4

impedance.py

A Python package for working with electro-chemical impedance data.

battery corrosion electrochemistry fuel-cell impedance lithium-ion

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

openTEPES

Determines the investment plans of new facilities (generators, ESS and lines) for supplying the forecasted demand at minimum cost.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Hotmaps

The open source mapping and planning tool for heating and cooling.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0

Euro-Calliope

A model of the European electricity system built using Calliope.

calliope-models conda energy europe renewable-energy research

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.0

CPU Energy Meter

A Linux tool that allows to monitor power consumption of Intel CPUs at fine time intervals.

energy linux rapl resource-measurement

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.2

ghg emissions indicator

R scripts for a greenhouse gases emissions indicator published on Environmental Reporting British Columbia.

data-science env r rstats

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.3

spanner

Utilities to support landscape-, forest-, and tree-related data collection, manipulation, analysis, modelling, and visualization.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

load_forecasting

Load forecasting on Delhi area electric power load using ARIMA, RNN, LSTM and GRU models.

arima electric-load-forecasting gru lstm machine-learning rnn ses sma time-series-forecasting wma

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1

rice-awd-shb

Research compendium for a report on the effects of using alternate wetting and drying irrigation techniques and nitrogen rates on sheath blight disease in rice paddies.

agriculture agriculture-research awd botanical-epidemiology fertilisation fertilizer irrigation nitrogen nitrogen-managements plant-disease r reproducible-research rhizoctonia rhizoctonia-solani rice rstats sheath-blight split-plot water

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 2.6

VICRes

The model simulates key hydrological processes occurring in a river basin (e.g. water and energy balances, streamflow routing), but does not account for the operations of artificial water reservoirs.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

SmartEVSE

Smart EVSE Electric Vehicle Charging Station.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.4

AWH-Geo

Tool and calculations for Global Potential of Harvesting Drinking Water from Air using Solar Energy.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.8

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.6

The Building Data Genome 2 Data-Set

Whole building non-residential hourly energy meter data from the Great Energy Predictor III competition.

building-automation building-energy electricity-consumption electricity-meter energy-consumption energy-efficiency open-data open-data-science open-source smart-city smart-meter

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.6

The Low Impact Website

Reduces data transfer by up to 70% in comparison to our regular website.

climate co2 nuxtjs shopify sustainability

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.6

BEMRosetta

Used to model hydrodynamic forces in offshore devices like ships, offshore wind platforms and wave energy converters.

boundary-element hydrodynamic-coefficients-viewer hydrodynamics mesh-processing meshviewer offshore-wind-platforms potential-flow wave-energy

Renewable Energy - Hydro Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.2

Solar electricity Nowcasting

Build the world's best near-term forecasting system for solar electricity generation.

nowcasting

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

IEA-15-240-RWT

A 15 MW reference wind turbine repository developed in conjunction with IEA Wind.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

WEIS

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

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

urbs

A linear optimization model for distributed energy systems.

energy-system linear-programming mathematical-modelling optimisation-model pandas pyomo python

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

SHARPy

Simulation of High Aspect Ratio aeroplanes and wind turbines in Python.

aeroelasticity aeronautics simulation structural-dynamics structures wind-turbines

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

allodb

An R package for biomass estimation at extratropical forest plots.

Biosphere - Biomass - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.6

Temoa

Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa) is an open source modeling framework for conducting energy system analysis.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

KnowFlow

KnowFlow Automatic Water Monitoring device is an open source tool enabling everyone to have access to first hand water quality data with low cost.

citizen-science iot-application water-monitoring water-quality

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

honeybee

A Python library to create, run and visualize the results of daylight (RADIANCE) and energy analysis (EnergyPlus/OpenStudio).

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

Open Carbon Watch

We monitor greenhouse gases emission reports published by organizations, along with their legal obligations and their own commitments, and track them over time.

carbon-emissions database laravel opendata vuejs

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 2.6

nasapower

Aims to make it quick and easy to automate downloading NASA-POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data in your R session as a tidy data frame tibble object for analysis and use in modeling or other purposes.

agroclimatology agroclimatology-data data-access earth-science nasa nasa-power r r-package rstats weather weather-data weather-variables

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

IPCC AR6 Chapter 9 Figures

Code and data for all figures from Chapter 9 of the IPCC AR6.

Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.2

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

pvcompare

A model for comparing the benefits of different PV technologies in a specified local energy system in different energy supply scenarios.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.9

CapacityExpansion.jl

Future energy system planning (Generation and Transmission Capacity Expansion Planning) in Julia.

california capacity-expansion-planning clustering energy energy-optimization-model germany julia jump

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

bikedata

Aims to enable ready importing of historical trip data from all public bicycle hire systems which provide data. Will be expanded on an ongoing basis as more systems publish open data.

bicycle-hire bicycle-hire-systems bike-data bike-hire database peer-reviewed r r-package rstats

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.9

mocsy

Routines to model ocean carbonate system thermodynamics.

Hydrosphere - Ocean Carbon and Temperature - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Global Power Plant Database

A comprehensive, global and open source database of power plants.

climate climate-data energy energy-data free-datasets open-data open-datasets

Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.4

dormancyR

Provide alternatives to common chill models used in horticulture to compute chill metrics in deciduous fruit tree orchards as well as functions to handle weather data.

agronomy chill-models weather-data

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Green Cost Explorer

See how much of your cloud bill is spent on fossil fuels, so you can do the right thing and switch.

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

NEMO

The National Electricity Market Optimizer is a chronological dispatch model for testing and optimizing different portfolios of conventional and renewable electricity generation technologies.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.9

ONEARMY

A series of tools for the Precious Plastic community to collaborate around the world and tackle plastic waste.

Industrial Ecology - Circular Economy and Waste - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.7

SolarTherm

Solar thermal power/fuel station performance simulation and optimization using Modelica.

energy engineering modelica modelica-library optimisation simulation solar thermodynamics

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

Charge Controller Firmware

Firmware for LibreSolar MPPT/PWM charge controllers.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.3

sea-ice

Displays the monthly mean sea ice extent for the Arctic and Antarctic along with the historical median extent.

antarctic arcgis-js-api arcgis-online arctic d3 esri living-atlas sea-ice visualization

Cryosphere - Sea Ice - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.4

ENNOID-BMS

Open Source: Modular BMS based on LTC68XX & STM32 MCU for up to 400V EV battery pack.

batteries battery-management-system bms powerwall slave-boards

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.9

CDRMEx

Carbon Dioxide Removal Modeling Experiments.

carbon-dioxide-removal carbon-removal cdr climate-change climate-modeling-experiments magicc

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.0

CoMPAS

Formed to develop open source software components related to IEC 61850 model implementation (profile management) and configuration of a power industry Protection Automation and Control System.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.8

pywdpa

Python interface to the World Database on Protected Areas.

api country-iso-code protected-areas protected-planet python-package shapefiles wdpa world

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3

Carbonalyser

Allows to visualize the electricity consumption and greenhouse gases emissions that your Internet browsing leads to.

addon carbon-emissions chrome-extension ecology firefox-addon

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

LakePy

Pythonic user-centered front-end to the Global Lake Level Database.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.2

seedr

An R package that provides functions to fit hydro and thermal time germination models.

agronomy botany ecology germination seeds

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

OSeMOSYS

An open source modeling system for long-run integrated assessment and energy planning. It has been employed to develop energy systems models from the scale of continents (African Power Pools, South America, EU28+2) down to the scale of countries, regions and villages.

energy energy-model energy-planners investment osemosys students

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.8

canwqdata

An R package to download open water quality data from Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data.

data-science env r r-package rlang rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

CDE

Facilitates searching and download of the Water Framework Directive reporting data for all waterbodies from the EA website.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.9

Methane-detection-from-hyperspectral-imagery

Deep Learning based Remote Sensing Methods for Methane Detection in Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery.

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.9

AquaSat

A data set to enable remote sensing of water quality for inland waters.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

pyMETRIC

A set of Python based tools developed for estimating and mapping evapotranspiration for large areas, utilizing the Landsat image archive.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels

Open Source database of oil, gas and coal production and reserves globally, expressed in CO2-equivalent.

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

Multiscale Solar Water Heating

Solar water heating system modeling and simulation for individual and community scale projects.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

pv-system-profiler

Estimating PV array location and orientation from real-world power datasets.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.3

The-building-data-genome-project

A collection of non-residential buildings for performance analysis and algorithm benchmarking.

commercial-building electrical-meters electricity-meter energy-efficiency feature-engineering feature-extraction jupyter-notebook open-data smart-meter temporal-data

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.5

DynACof

Process-based model computes plot-scale Net Primary Productivity, carbon allocation, growth, yield, energy, and water balance of coffee plantations according to management.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 2.3

LibreSolar

Firmware for LibreSolar BMS boards based on bq769x0 or ISL94202.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.4

ESIOS

Comprehensive library to access the Spanish electricity market entity in Python.

Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.6

canopyLazR

An R package that estimates leaf area density and leaf area index from airborne LiDAR point clouds.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

Open Energy Outlook

Examining U.S. energy futures to inform future energy and climate policy efforts.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.5

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.8

windfarmGA

Genetic algorithm to optimize the layout of wind farms.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.1

pypownet

A power network simulator with a Reinforcement Learning-focused usage.

gym-environments power-network powergrid reinforcement-learning reinforcement-learning-environments simulator

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

PyChEmiss

A Python script to create the wrfchemi file from local emissions needed to run WRF-Chem model.

emission wrf-chem wrf-domain

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.6

long-live-the-battery

Predicting total battery cycle life time with machine learning.

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.5

Tools for the iTEM databases

Contains tools for two databases maintained by iTEM, the International Transport Energy Modeling consortium.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.9

Iceberg Locations

Antarctic large iceberg positions derived from ASCAT and OSCAT-2.

beautifulsoup4 climate-change git-scraping iceberg python scraping

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 1.8

solariot

Leverage your IoT enabled Solar PV Inverter to stream your solar energy usage data to a real time dashboard.

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Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9

BedMachine

Matlab tools for loading, interpolating, and displaying BedMachine ice sheet topography.

antarctica bedmachine geology glaciers glaciology greenland ice-shelves matlab

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.1

universal-battery-database

The Universal Battery Database is an open source software for managing Lithium-ion cell data.

deep-learning lithium-ion lithium-ion-cells ml tensorflow universal-battery-database

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

eeExtra

A ninja python package that unifies the Google Earth Engine ecosystem.

dataviz earth-engine geographic-information-systems gis google-earth-engine javascript landsat modis python python3 r remote-sensing rstats satellite-imagery sentinel

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.2

Global Carbon Budget

An annual living data publication of carbon cycle sources and sinks, generated from multiple data sources and by multiple organisations and research groups.

data-package

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.1

demandlib

With the demandlib you can create power and heat profiles for various sectors by scaling them to your desired demand.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.5

pvoutput

Python code for downloading PV data from PVOutput.org.

nowcasting pvoutput python python-library solar

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.7

LoadProfileGenerator

A program for generating load curves for residential consumers. Agent-based and extremely detailed.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

BatterySense

A simple Arduino library to monitor battery consumption of your battery powered projects, being LiPo, LiIon, NiCd or any other battery type, single or multiple cells: if it can power your Arduino you can monitor it.

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.1

RecycleNet

Effective trash classification model using only a small number of annotated images.

attention recyclenet trash-classification trashnet

Industrial Ecology - Circular Economy and Waste - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.2