Rextag Power & Renewables Dataset

Core Features

The dataset combines physical asset locations with information such as ownership, operating status, capacity and technical characteristics. Customers can work with the data through Rextag's Energy DataLink mapping platform or license it for use in their own GIS and analytical systems.

• Power Generation: The database covers tens of thousands of generating plants across technologies including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, natural gas, coal and nuclear. Available attributes include facility name, owner/operator, operating status, generating capacity, energy source and prime mover.

• Solar and Wind Resources: Renewable-specific layers include individual wind turbine locations, wind speeds and raster wind resource data, together with solar installation footprints, Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) and raster solar resource information. This lets users consider renewable resources alongside existing infrastructure.

• Energy Storage: Rextag tracks storage facilities with key information like ownership, operational status, capacity, storage technology, etc. This helps users examine storage in relation to generation and grid infrastructure.

• Alternative and Low-Carbon Energy Infrastructure: Coverage extends beyond wind and solar to hydrogen plants and pipelines, geothermal sites, biomass resources, biodiesel and oilseed plants, ethanol biorefineries, renewable natural gas, landfills, CO2 pipelines and carbon capture and storage projects.

• GIS, Mapping and Data Integration: Data can be accessed through the web-based Energy DataLink application, licensed as GIS databases or delivered through WMS, WFS, REST and other API connections. Energy DataLink supports mapping, reporting, queries, data uploads and saved/shared maps, allowing organizations to combine Rextag information with their own project data.

Closing Insights

The practical strength of the Power & Renewables Dataset is that it places renewable resources and projects in their surrounding infrastructure context. Knowing that an area has strong solar irradiation or wind resources is only part of site selection. Developers also need to understand where transmission lines and substations are located, their characteristics and who operates them.

Customers can license data by dataset and region and access it through Rextag's Energy DataLink application or as GIS data. Importantly for organizations building the data into their own systems, Rextag also offers API mapping services and says developers can use API access to embed its information within their own applications. Because integration requirements will vary according to the datasets, geography and systems involved, prospective users with specific API requirements should contact Rextag to discuss the appropriate data access and integration arrangement.