Data Sources

Boundary Files

• CSO Census (2016, 2011) - Provinces, NUTS, Administrative counties, Electoral Divisions, Small Areas, Gaeltacht Areas, Legal Towns and Cities, Settlements (Census towns, legal towns and environs, cities and suburbs), Garda boundaries, Baronies, Constituencies, Limistéir Pleanála Teanga
  • Dublin Small Areas Boundaries linked to Postcodes, Electoral Divisions & Local Authorities for 2011 & 2016

• Dublin Postcodes (with/without “Co. Dublin”) by Shane McGuinness - created in collaboration with Yelp

• Ireland, Dublin - contains only the exterior boundary. Useful for extracting data within specified boundary.

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Catalogues

• CSO Energy & Climate - includes: fuel excise clearances, business energy use, domestic energy ratings, non-domestic building energy ratings, networked gas consumption, CSO climate data rescue

• CSO data portal - all CSO data available interatively in-browser via click & filter.

• data.gov.ie - Irish Public Sector data in open, free and reusable formats.

• EU Comission Copernicus - global data from satellites and ground-based, airborne, and seaborne measurement systems. Copernicus is served by a set of dedicated satellites (the Sentinel families) and contributing missions (existing commercial and public satellites).

• GeoHive - an initiative by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) to provide easy access to publically available spatial data.

• gov.ie - publications from government departments and agencies, including news, press releases, reports, and Freedom of Information responses. Includes: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD), latest standards energy efficiency standards for new dwellings, Cost Optimal Residential Report Ireland 2018

• Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) - “Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data acquisition, preservation, and dissemination. Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide access to quantitative datasets in the social sciences, and to advance the promotion of international comparative studies of the Irish economy and Irish society.”

• Ordinance Survey Ireland (OSI) - includes: boundaries, nature & environment, placenames, built environment, transportation & travel, water & hydrography, adminstrative,

• Planetary Computer Data Catalog - includes petabytes of environmental monitoring data, in consistent, analysis-ready formats. All of the datasets below can be accessed via Azure Blob Storage, and can be used by developers whether you’re working within or outside of our Planetary Computer Hub. Includes Landsat, Sentinal-2, ASTER, NAIP, GBIF, Global Hydro Estimator, Harbonized Global Biomass, TerraClimate…

• Smart Dublin open data - includes: Public lighting infrastructure, Traffic light usage, Energy Consumption (Gas and Electricity) Civic Offices 2009-2012, Gas Consumption, Building Electricity Usage, Transport & Infrastructure, Bikeshare locations, Traffic volumes, Dart Stations, Roads & Streets, 3D Data Model Resources for Dublin Docklands SDZ, Journey Times, Real-time Passenger Information (RTPI) for Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann, Luas and Irish rail

• Spatio Temporal Asset Catalogue - The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification provides a common language to describe a range of geospatial information, so it can more easily be indexed and discovered. A ‘spatiotemporal asset’ is any file that represents information about the earth captured in a certain space and time. Several STAC Catalogs are live, including: Landsat (catalog), CBERS (catalog), Sentinel 2 (catalog), Google Earth Engine (Collections Only)

• UCD Spatial Data & Other Datasets - includes: Administrative Boundaries, Agriculture, Air Quality, Archaeology & Built Heritage, Conservation Areas, Economics, Elevation Data, Extractive Industries, Flooding, Forestry & Woodland, Geology, Habitats, Housing, Hydrology, Ireland_Shapefiles, Labour Market, Land Cover, Land Use, Marine Data, Mining, Natural Heritage, Satellite Imagery, Population, Social Data, Soil, Topography, Transportation & Travel, Utilities, Waste, Water Quality, Weather & Climatology, Wind Energy

• UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Data Catalogue - a compilation of energy related publications for the United Kingdom.

• World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal - an online platform for access to comprehensive global, regional, and country data related to climate change and development.

• World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) - includes: climate geodata for Dublin & Cork

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Demand

Synthetic

• GlobalEnergyGIS - generates input data for energy models on renewable energy in arbitrary world regions using public datasets.

Transport

• National Transport Authority data (available upon request)

• ESB EV Charge Point Locations

• OpenChargeMap - a crowdsourced global public registry of Electric Vehicle charging locations

• PlugShare - a community based tool that guides users to public charging locations throughout the world

• Smart Dublin Transport & Infrastructure

Industry

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Annual Industrial Energy Use - Annual Gas & Electricity data for Emissions Trading System (ETS) industrial buildings.

Buildings

• Blue Sky 3D Building Models (available upon purchase) - derived photogrammetrically from high resolution stereo aerial photography.

• Carbon Trust Advanced Metering Trial (2004-2006) (available upon request)
  • Half hourly gas and electricity (and water) consumption data (not all utilities were monitored at every site) gathered during the Carbon Trusts Advanced Metering for SMEs project (2004-2006) in United Kingdom Regions of England, Wales and Scotland.
  • Meter readings are available for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Community, social and personal activities, Education, Financial and business services, Government, Health and social work, Manufacturing, Other sectors, Wholesale and retail trade,
• CIBSE Energy Benchmarks (available upon purchase) - Commercial sector building fossil fuel and electricity benchmarks by building type .
  • TM46: Energy Benchmarks (2008).
  • CIBSE Guide F: Energy efficiency (2012) Table 20.1

• CSO Small Area Census Statistics (2016) - census statistics at areas comprising between 80 and 120 dwellings.

• CSO Census Statistics Visualisations (2016)

• CRU Smart Meter Trials demand data (available upon request) - at 15 minute resolution
  • Electricity demands (2009-2010) for over 5,000 Irish homes and businesses (SMEs).
  • Gas demands (2010-2011) for nearly 2,000 Irish homes.
  • see tool: cer-smart-meter-trials-2009-2011
• Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) Annual Networked Gas Consumption - for all Irish Power Plants, Residential & Non-Residential
  • Total/Median Annual Gas Consumption and Total Meters by Dublin Postcode for Residential & Non-Residential Sector 2011-2019 converted to GeoJSON format
  • Converting CSO Network Gas consumption from HTML to GeoJSON

• GeoHive Dublin Housing Observatory - a mapping viewer based on a wide variety of publicly accessible housing related public datasets for the Dublin region including; Contextual Layers (Boundaries and Local Services), Zoning and Planning (Development Plans, Residential Zoning etc), Rental Market, Sales and Market Valuations (RTB Rent Index, Property Price Register, LPT etc) and Census 2016 Census Variables (Tenure, Type, Housing Composition, Population and Population Density etc)

• Geodirectory (available upon subscription) - GeoAddress & GeoData databases backed by An Post and Ordnance Survey Ireland.

• Mortar - a large, diverse and consistently updated testbed of buildings and building data to facilitate reproducible evaluation of building analytics. At this time, Mortar contains 107 buildings, spanning over 10 billion data points and 26,000 data streams (28/01/2021).

• Myplan Zoning Map - Generalised Zoning Types (GZT) layer which represents zoning data from Development Plans and Local Area Plans in a consistent scheme for all local authorities.

• NASA Digital Elevation Model - from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), sampled at 3 arc second intervals in latitude & longitude (about every 90m) in heightmap (.HGT) format.

• National Monument’s Service Heritage Buildings - Locations of Heritage Buildings & Monuments

• Openstreetmaps overpass-turbo - download building data from Openstreetmaps by selecting Wizard and entering one of the following tags:
  • building - “to mark the outline of a building, a man-made structure with a roof, standing more or less permanently in one place.”
  • see tool: osmnx
• SEAI’s BER Public Search dataset - data (at Postcode level & updated nightly) on all Irish dwellings who have had their BER rating evaluated. .
  • see tool: berpublicsearch

• SEAI’s BER Map - building data (at Small Area level) on dwelling clusters within Ireland.

• SEAI Monitoring & Reporting Data (M&R) (available upon request) - annual energy demands for Public Sector buildings .

• Sinnott et al’s Air Tightness Ireland Field Data houses 1944-2008 (2011) - air permeability test results of 28 houses built between 1944 and 2008 and at varying stages of retrofit.

• TABULA building typology data - for each of the European member states participating in the project.
  • see tool: TEASER
  • see tool: archetypal

• United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2014-2015 - a large-scale household survey that provides data on how people aged 8 years and over in the UK spend their time.

• United Kingdom Domestic and Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) and Display Energy Certificates (DEC) data for buildings in England and Wales (available upon request)

• Valuation Office Commercial Building Floor Areas

• Wei Pan’s Air Tightness UK Field Data houses post-2006 (2010) - air permeability test results of 287 post-2006 new-build dwellings in the UK.

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Emissions

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Licensing and Permitting - industrial Emissions

• SEAI Conversion Factors - Calorific values, Emission factors, Fuel densities, Primary energy conversion factors

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Finance

• DEEP - an open-source database for energy efficiency investments performance monitoring and benchmarking that provides detailed analysis and evidence on the performance of energy efficiency investments to support the assessment of the related benefits and financial risks.

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Other

• SEAI Publications

• Openstreetmaps geofabrik - extracts from the OpenStreetMap project for Ireland and Northern Ireland

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Supply

Electricity

• Eirgrid Publications

• Eirgrid System Data - includes hourly electricity supply/generation of system/wind, capacities, annual fuel mix, connected/contracted generators, wind dispatch down/constraint/curtailment

• European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity ENTSO-E - central collection and publication of electricity generation, transportation and consumption data and information for the pan-European market.
  • See entsoe-py

• ESB Availability Capacity Map: Demand & Generation - contains capacity information on all our 3-phase LV, MV and HV DSO substations. It provides an interface that enables the easy identification of potential transformer capacity in the vicinity of your site. An excel file is available to download from the download section on this page.

• ESB CAD Network Data (available upon request) - HV, MV & LV network data for distinct and separate geographic areas which, in combination, contain the locational information for all of ESB Networks High Voltage (38kV, 110kV, 220kV, 400kV), Medium Voltage (20kV, 10kV) and Low Voltage (LV) electrical infrastructure.

• ESB Publications
  • 38kV & 110kV Station Special Load Readings 2019/2020 (converted to xlsx) - a coincident set of measurements of simultaneous load for all distribution stations. Availability Capacity Map provides station locations, demand & capacities.
• Openstreetmaps overpass-turbo - download electricity data from Openstreetmaps by selecting Wizard and entering one of the following tags:
  • power - “for marking and tagging facilities for the generation and distribution of electrical power.”
  • see tool: osmnx

Gas

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Weather

• Met Eireann Historical Data

• ASHRAE International Weather for Energy Calculations v2 (IWEC2) (available on purchase) - derived from Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) weather data originally archived at the National Climatic Data Center. For these selected locations, the ISH database contains weather observations on average at least four times per day of wind speed and direction, sky cover, visibility, ceiling height, dry-bulb temperature, dew-point temperature, atmospheric pressure, liquid precipitation, and present weather for at least 12 years of records up to 25 years .

• EnergyPLUS Weather Data

• Kaggle Weather Data - weather data taken at hourly intervals from Irish weather stations (1989-2018)