Research data is an important outcome of research. Making it accessible to everyone in a way that can be reused helps the whole research community to reproduce research. Making research data available, alongside journal articles and research software, is crucial to maximising our impact, the value of our work, and public investment. UKERC has long believed in the principles of proactive data management to benefit its researchers and the wider energy research community.. At The Energy Data Centre (EDC), the team created and monitored the planning process, giving specialist advice when requested. This blog post reviews the progress the EDC has made, what data is now available and from where.

11/03/2025

The P114 dataset supplied by Elexon has accurate data on the balancing and settling of the UK electricity market. The Energy Data Centre gives access to the data to a group of universities who have signed an agreement. Every quarter the EDC team download and process the data and this has been done to include July, August and September 2024

19/12/2024

The Faraday Institution is the UK's independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis, and early-stage commercialisation. It produces publications from insights into specific topics to research reports. The Energy Data Centre is now collecting this content to increase the discoverability of it and to enhance the EDC's collection of grey literature

28/11/2024