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VCE RARE Renewable Generation Profiles in PUDL

https://catalyst.coop/2024/10/22/vce-rare-pudl/

Published: October 22, 2024 16:37

Catalyst is helping GridLab, Pattern Energy Group, and Vibrant Clean Energy distribute a new open (CC-BY-4.0 licensed) dataset produced by Vibrant Clean Energy which provides hourly, county-level wind and solar generation profiles based on NOAA’s High…

Announcing: Open Energy Data for All!

https://catalyst.coop/2024/10/17/announcing-open-energy-data-for-all/

Published: October 17, 2024 16:05

A free training series for energy graduate students In the course of our work at Catalyst, we’ve been lucky enough to work with energy researchers at many institutions. So often, we see people run into the same set of problems – handling data that’s too…

Insights From 60+ Energy Data User Interviews

https://catalyst.coop/2024/10/01/insights-from-60-energy-data-user-interviews/

Published: October 1, 2024 20:03

To kick off our NSF POSE grant work, over 4 weeks in July and August we interviewed more than 60 energy data users as part of NSF’s Innovation Corps program (I-Corps). I-Corps helps POSE awardees better understand their users and contributors, and the…

Inside the 2024 Catalyst Member Retreat

https://catalyst.coop/2024/08/20/inside-the-2024-catalyst-member-retreat/

Published: August 20, 2024 19:52

Catalyst is a fully-remote organization with members living all over North America. Our floating cyborg heads are besties, but we’re privy to the power of an analog hang. As such, we host an annual member retreat. This year we chose to meet in Mexico City…

Workplace Democracy and Open Source

https://catalyst.coop/2024/08/13/workplace-democracy-and-open-source/

Published: August 13, 2024 17:15

This year at csv,conf,v8 in Puebla, Mexico I gave a talk on our experience as a democratic worker cooperative creating digital public goods, and why we think co-ops are potentially a good fit for creating public-interest technology. You can watch the…

Integrating PUDL with PyPSA-USA

https://catalyst.coop/2024/08/05/pudl-pypsa-usa/

Published: August 5, 2024 19:58

We recently found out that Kamran Tehranchi, one of two primary maintainers of the PyPSA-USA open source power system model, was working on adapting it to use open data that we publish through our Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL), so we…

PUDL awarded NSF POSE grant

https://catalyst.coop/2024/07/09/pudl-awarded-nsf-pose-grant/

Published: July 9, 2024 18:40

Introducing POSE We are excited to share that the Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL) and Catalyst Cooperative have been awarded a Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) Phase I grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! This grant will…

We hired a technical writer for PUDL!

https://catalyst.coop/2024/05/21/we-hired-a-technical-writer-for-pudl/

Published: May 21, 2024 17:54

Catalyst is very excited to announce that we have hired Nancy Amandi as a technical writer for PUDL’s Google Season of Docs project (full proposal here). The project will run from June through October, during which time Nancy will work on improving our…

Entity matching with Splink to connect FERC to EIA

https://catalyst.coop/2024/04/15/entity-matching-with-splink-to-connect-ferc-to-eia/

Published: April 15, 2024 18:48

Linking power plant financial data to energy system operational data with help from Climate Change AI At the end of 2023, Catalyst wrapped up work funded by a Climate Change AI (CCAI) Innovation Grant using entity matching (record linkage) to connect the…

Beating the Utility Holding Company Shell Game

https://catalyst.coop/2024/02/15/beating-utility-ownership-shell-game/

Published: February 15, 2024 17:29

We’re excited to be part of the Mozilla Technology Fund’s 2024 cohort, which is focusing on open source AI for environmental justice! We’re going to use Mozilla’s support to link US Securities and Exchange Commission data about utility ownership to…