(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has launched an experimental platform for energy sector-related data with enhanced emphasis on governance and usability. The Open Energy Hub is a connection hub of datasets from various sources, including federal, state, academia, and private-sector entities, providing information and visualizations on details such as energy use, supply, and availability.

Project lead Supriya Chinthavali acknowledged that many open data portals exist, but the Open Energy Hub is novel in its data triage process and in being a “catalog of catalogs.” With open data sharing come sensitivity and privacy concerns. This is where the team’s data triage process comes into play, helping determine the privacy risk level for each dataset.

The team initially adopted the concept based on the United Kingdom’s energy data strategy, where open data triage was introduced. The team had to consider open data when building an open data portal.

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