Members: Eric Munsing, Michaelangelo Tabone, Anna Schneider, and Peter Alstone

http://electricitymapper.appspot.com/
https://github.com/WattTime/pyiso

Goals

• Make peoples’ energy analysis work more accessible.
• API functions, hooks, and vis for energy markets
• Collect and process data from energy markets for wholesale electrcity prices, particularly focused on historical data for researchers.

Potential outcomes: - R and python codebases / packages - Own API? - Weather and buildings data.

Data and tools in hand

• Weather data – based on Sam’s code for wunderground. forecast.io also available.
• Hosting the data?
• Census
• Household characteristics
• CAISO API hooks (from peter) real-time streams / DB type (SMAP database)? Watttime: what they’ve done: (pyso on github)
  • Scrapers for all of the ISO for real-time generation mix
  • pyiso
  • see repositories for more… ## plan for semester A stack of software to get / serve / visualize electricity market data.