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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xarray
An open source project and Python package that introduces labels in the form of dimensions, coordinates, and attributes on top of raw NumPy-like arrays, which allows for more intuitive, more concise, and less error-prone user experience.
dask netcdf numpy pandas python xarray
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 31.7
solax
Read energy usage data from the real-time API on Solax solar inverters.
home-automation iot photovoltaic raspberry-pi solar solax
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 28.3
env_canada
Provides access to various data sources published by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 27.5
tesla_powerwall
Python Tesla Powerwall API for consuming a local endpoint.
api battery powerwall powerwall-api powerwall-status python tesla tesla-powerwall
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 27.4
noaa_coops
A Python wrapper for the NOAA CO-OPS Tides & Currents Data and Metadata APIs.
coops currents metocean noaa python sensors-data tides water-level weather-api
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 26.7
co2.js
A npm module for accessing the green web API, and estimating the carbon emissions from using digital services.
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 26.3
netcdf-python
The Unidata network Common Data Form (netCDF) in Python is an interface for scientific data access and a set of freely-distributed software libraries that provide an implementation of the interface.
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 25.9
pvlib-python
A set of documented functions for simulating the performance of photovoltaic energy systems.
photovoltaic python renewable-energy renewables solar-energy
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 25.3
CodeCarbon
Track emissions from Compute and recommend ways to reduce their impact on the environment.
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 24.3
PowSyBl
An open source framework written in Java, that makes it easy to write complex software for power systems simulations and analysis.
cim energy-system extensible groovy java modular power-system-simulation power-systems powsybl
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 23.0
MetPy
A collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and performing calculations with weather data.
atmospheric-science hacktoberfest hodograph meteorology plotting python scientific-computations skew-t weather weather-data
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 22.8
entsoe-py
A Python client for the ENTSO-E API (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity).
Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 22.5
Cloud Carbon Footprint
A tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage.
carbon-emissions carbon-footprint climate cloud hacktoberfest sustainability thoughtworks
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 22.1
pandapower
An easy to use open source tool for power system modeling, analysis and optimization with a high degree of automation.
analysis loadflow optimization power powerflow python short-circuit state-estimation system
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.9
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
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
leafmap
A Python package for geospatial analysis and interactive mapping in a Jupyter environment.
data-science dataviz folium geoparquet geopython geospatial geospatial-analysis gis ipyleaflet jupyter jupyter-notebook leafmap mapping plotly python streamlit streamlit-webapp whiteboxtools
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.8
PyBaMM
Fast and flexible physics-based battery models in Python.
batteries battery-models pybamm python simulation solvers
Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.5
cfgrib
A Python interface to map GRIB files to the NetCDF Common Data Model following the CF Convention using ecCodes.
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.1
stplanr
A package for sustainable transport planning with R.
cycle cycling desire-lines origin-destination peer-reviewed pubic-transport r r-package route-network routes routing rstats spatial transport transport-planning transportation walking
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.0
sentinelsat
Makes searching, downloading and retrieving the metadata of Sentinel satellite images from the Copernicus Open Access Hub easy.
copernicus esa geographic-data hacktoberfest open-data remote-sensing satellite-imagery sentinel
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.7
origin
A set of toolkits that together provide a system for issuance and management of Energy Attribute Certificates.
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.5
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
eemeter
An open source Python package for implementing and developing standard methods for calculating normalized metered energy consumption and avoided energy use.
building-energy efficiency energy energy-data energy-efficiency
Energy Systems - Energy Monitoring and Management - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.3
pydap
An implementation of the Opendap/DODS protocol, written from scratch in pure Python, that allows researchers to access NASA Earth science data from a variety of programs.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.2
openair
An R package developed for the purpose of analyzing air quality data — or more generally atmospheric composition data.
air-quality air-quality-data meteorology openair
Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.1
System Advisor Model
A simulation program for electricity generation projects. It has models for different kinds of renewable energy systems and financial models for residential, commercial, and utility-scale projects.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.8
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
cf-xarray
An accessor for xarray objects that interprets CF attributes.
cf-conventions metadata xarray
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.6
xclim
A library of derived climate variables, i.e. climate indicators, based on xarray.
anuclim climate-analysis climate-science dask icclim netcdf4 python xarray xclim
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.6
rdataone
R package for reading and writing data at DataONE data repositories.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.5
Iris
A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python package for analyzing and visualizing Earth science data.
data-analysis earth-science grib iris meteorology netcdf oceanography python spaceweather visualisation
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.5
cdsapi
Python API to access the Copernicus Climate Data Store.
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.4
palmerpenguins
The palmerpenguins data contains size measurements for three penguin species observed on three islands in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Animals - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.3
OpenQuake
Allows users to compute seismic hazard and seismic risk of earthquakes on a global scale.
cluster earthquakes hazard hazard-assessment hpc openquake openquake-engine psha python risk risk-analysis risk-assessment scientific-computing seismic
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.2
cmocean
Colormap setup for standardizing commonly-plotting oceanographic variables.
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 19.0
Water Network Tool for Resilience
A Python package designed to simulate and analyze resilience of water distribution networks.
modeling ord python simulation water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.7
Landlab
An open source Python package for numerical modeling of Earth surface dynamics.
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.7
PlantCV
Plant phenotyping using computer vision.
bioinformatics image-analysis plant-phenotyping plantcv science
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.7
Intake-esm
An intake plugin for parsing an Earth System Model catalog and loading assets into xarray datasets.
cesm-lens climate-datasets cmip6 data-access data-catalog earth-system-model hacktoberfest intake pangeo
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6
pyam
A Python package for data-wrangling, analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment scenarios and energy systems modeling results.
analysis energy-systems iamc-format integrated-assessment integrated-assessment-scenarios macro-energy modeling pyam scenario scenario-data timeseries-format visualization
Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6
windrose
A graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location.
matplotlib numpy pandas python speed wind windrose
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6
Meteostat Python
Access and analyze historical weather and climate data with Python.
climate climate-change climate-data data-science meteostat open-data statistics weather weather-data weather-station
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6
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
Siphon
A collection of Python utilities for retrieving atmospheric and oceanic data from remote sources, focusing on being able to retrieve data from Unidata data technologies.
hacktoberfest netcdf python thredds thredds-catalogs unidata
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.5
AQP
Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology is a collection of code, ideas, documentation, and examples wrapped-up into several R packages.
digital-soil-mapping ncss-tech nrcs pedology pedometrics soil soil-survey usda
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.5
FedData
R package implementing functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources in hydology, soil, climatology, cropland or landcover.
peer-reviewed r r-package rstats
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4
xskillscore
An open source project and Python package that provides verification metrics of deterministic (and probabilistic from properscoring) forecasts with xarray.
forecasting metrics pangeo verification
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4
BioCro
A model that predicts plant growth over time given crop-specific parameters and environmental data as input.
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4
thermo
Thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, transport properties and chemical database component of Chemical Engineering Design Library.
chemical-engineering cheminformatics chemistry combustion density environmental-engineering equation-of-state heat-capacity mechanical-engineering molecule physics process-simulation solubility surface-tension thermal-conductivity thermodynamics vapor-pressure viscosity
Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4
MegaDetector
Deep learning tools that accelerate the review of motion-triggered wildlife camera images.
camera-traps computer-vision conservation machine-learning megadetector pytorch pytorch-wildlife wildlife
Biosphere - Terrestrial Animals - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.3
Egret
A Python-based package for electrical grid optimization based on the Pyomo optimization modeling language.
energy-system milp minlp nlp optimization power powerflow python snl-applications snl-science-libs
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.2
eeweather
Fetch NCDC ISD, TMY3, or CZ2010 weather data that corresponds to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas or Latitude/Longitude.
weather weather-data weather-station
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.2
netcdf-c
The Unidata network Common Data Form (netCDF) in C is an interface for scientific data access and a set of freely-distributed software libraries that provide an implementation of the interface.
c hacktoberfest netcdf unidata unidata-netcdf
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.1
tidyhydat
An R package to import Water Survey of Canada hydrometric data and make it tidy.
citz government-data hydrology hydrometrics r r-package rstats tidy-data water-resources
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.1
Digital Earth Australia Notebooks
Hosts Jupyter Notebooks, Python scripts and workflows for analysing Digital Earth Australia (DEA) satellite data and derived products.
digitalearthaustralia documentation earth-observation earthobservation geoscienceaustralia geospatial-data jupyter-notebook landsat opendatacube python remote-sensing remotesensing satellite-imagery sentinel-2 xarray
Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.0
wetterdienst
Trying to make access to weather data in Python feel like a warm summer breeze.
canada data deutscher-wetterdienst dwd eccc germany historical-data hydrology meteorology open-data open-source radar time-series uk united-states weather weather-api weather-forecast weather-station weatherservice
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.0
earthaccess
Search, download or stream NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code.
access climate-data cloud-computing cmr data gis nasa nasa-api nasa-data open-science openscience pangeo remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9
rWBclimate
An R interface for the World Bank climate data used in the World Bank climate knowledge portal.
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9
EODAG
Gives you an easy way to access products from more than 10 earth observation providers, with more than 50 different product types (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Sentinel 3, Landsat, etc.) that can be searched and downloaded.
catalog cbers copernicus downloader earth-observation eodag geographic-data geospatial gis landsat modis remote-sensing satellite-imagery search sentinel spatial-imagery stac
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9
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
lidR
An R package for airborne LiDAR data manipulation and visualization for forestry application.
als forestry las laz lidar point-cloud r remote-sensing
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.8
NEON
The National Ecological Observatory Network provides open data to understand changing ecosystems.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.8
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
Herbie
A python package that downloads recent and archived numerical weather prediction model output from different cloud archive sources.
big-data-program cfgrib download ecmwf-data gfs grib grib2 hrrr noaa-data nomads numerical-weather-prediction open-data python rap xarray
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.6
floris
A controls-oriented engineering wake modeling framework for evaluating the impact of wind farm controls on AEP and wind farm design.
Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.5
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.5
node-gtfs
Import GTFS transit data into SQLite and query routes, stops, times, fares and more.
geojson gtfs node-gtfs public-transportation sqlite transit transit-data
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.5
eurostat R package
R tools to access open data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
cran eurostat eurostat-data r r-package ropengov
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.4
atlite
Light-weight version of Aarhus RE Atlas for converting weather data to power systems data.
csp dynamic-line-rating energy energy-system energy-systems era5 gis heat-pump potentials pv python reanalysis renewable-energy renewable-timeseries solar wind
Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.4
openEO
Provides intuitive programming libraries to process a wide variety of earth observation datasets.
earth-observation openeo python remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.3
leaflet-velocity
Create a canvas visualization layer for direction and intensity of arbitrary velocities (e.g. wind, ocean current).
current leaflet ocean velocity visualisation visualization water weather wind
Hydrosphere - Waves and Currents - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.3
GridCal
Aims to be a complete platform for power systems research and simulation.
acdc cim comon-information-model electrical electrical-engineering helm latin-hypercube monte-carlo-simulation multi-terminal newton-raphson optimization power-systems powerflow python stochastic-power-flow
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.3
DeepForest
Python Package for Tree Crown Detection in Airborne RGB imagery.
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.2
riem
Allows to get weather data from ASOS airports stations all around the globe.
airports asos iowa-environment-mesonet metar peer-reviewed r r-package rstats temperature weather weather-api
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
dplR
A package for R that performs tree-ring analyses such as detrending, chronology building, and crossdating.
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
ec0lint
A static code analysis tool that provides users with hints on how to reduce the carbon footprint of their websites during the development process.
css digital-ecology ec0lint ecology eslint javascript linter typescript website
Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
PowSyBl Open Load Flow
An open source implementation of the load flow API that can be found in PowSyBl Core. It supports AC Newtow-Raphson and linear DC calculation methods.
energy-system java klu load-flow loadflow power-flow power-system-simulation power-systems powerflow powsybl
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
pyswmm
Python Wrapper for Stormwater Management Model.
hydraulic-modeling hydrology-stormwater-analysis python stormwater swmm swmm5
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
climetlab
A Python package aiming at simplifying access to climate and meteorological datasets, allowing users to focus on science instead of technical issues such as data access and data formats.
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
xgcm
A Python package for analyzing general circulation model output data.
climate-model finite-volume gridded-data python
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
Grid2Op
A testbed platform to model sequential decision making in power systems.
grid2op gym-environments powergrid powergrid-operation reinforcement-learning reinforcement-learning-environments
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
CliFlo
Easily download and visualise climate data from New Zealand's National Climate Database.
climate-data climate-stations kml national-climate-database r r-package rstats weather windrose zealand
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
rgee
An R binding package for calling Google Earth Engine API from within R.
earth-engine earthengine google-earth-engine googleearthengine r spatial-analysis spatial-data
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
HELICS
Today the core uses are in the energy domain, where there is extensive and growing support for a wide-range of electric power system, natural gas, communications and control-schemes, transportation, buildings, and related domain tools.
co-simulation power-grids simulation simulation-framework
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.0
gridstatus
Provides standardized API to access energy data from the major Independent System Operators in the United States.
co2-emissions decarbonization electrical-grid energy python
Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.0
wrf-python
A collection of diagnostic and interpolation routines for use with output from the Weather Research and Forecasting Model.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.9
stationaRy
Get hourly meteorological data from one of thousands of global stations.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.9
CLIMADA
Stands for CLIMate ADAptation and is a probabilistic natural catastrophe impact model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.).
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.8
ESMValTool
A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in World Climate Research Programme.
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.8
