There is a new blog post from the Department of Energy pointing to a resource that may be of use: White House Highlights Two Energy-Slashing, Open Data Initiatives | Department of Energy.
This post highlights two steps featured in the “Energy Datapalooza” activity going on now:
KEY BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE STEPS INCLUDE:
– Anonymized building performance data for energy retrofits, financing, and policy design
The Department of Energy announced today that its Buildings Performance Database has exceeded a milestone of 750,000 building records, making it the world’s largest public database of real buildings’ energy performance information. The Buildings Performance Database lets users mine anonymous statistical data from real buildings that match a specific building characteristic profile, enabling real estate professionals, contractors, policymakers and lenders to incorporate real-world performance data into their decision making.
– Cities publishing open building energy performance data in a standard format to aid benchmarking and promote efficiency
​Today, the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington D.C. are announcing that they will use the Department of Energy’s open source Standard Energy Efficiency Data (SEED) platform to publish the data collected through their benchmarking disclosure programs. SEED is a free, user-friendly, web-enabled software application that helps organizations easily aggregate, clean, track, and share data on the energy performance of large groups of buildings.
Not sure if these particular datasets will be widely of use but it is good to see “open data” happening in the field of building science.
