- Wifi: SSID HackReduce PW: DataSet275
- Register to demo by 2pm on Sunday on our ChallengePost page. Leave yourself 5- 10 minutes to register your team and fill this out, because you need to provide a name, a short description and at least one image (i.e. a screenshot or sketch).
- Need help? Mentors will be floating around the whole time, feel free to ask for help or feedback!
- Slides from the intro session: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwklydH-iwpAWjJkMmwyLUZRS3M/edit?usp=sharing
The Department of Energy is awarding prizes for the best web and mobile apps that use a featured DOE API, tool or standard to solve an energy-related challenge.
- Apps must use a featured DOE API, tool or standard (see below for details)
- You can build an app for any platform
- There are $100,000 in total prizes available. You qualify for prizes based on which featured resources you use
- Submissions are due to the challenge website by March 9
- Sandbox API server and instructions for getting started: http://services.greenbuttondata.org
- Example parser implementation in Python: https://github.com/sborgeson/building-data-analysis/blob/master/GBParse.py
- Example parser implementation in Ruby: https://github.com/interlink/greenbutton-ruby
- Example parser / grapher implementation in Javascript: https://github.com/mtmckenna/green-button-grapher
- Play with the tool here (you need to create an account): https://bpd.lbl.gov
- Get an overview of the API
- Read the full details of the API here: https://bpd.lbl.gov/developers/
- You can obtain an API key at the address above.
- The Energy Information Administration collects statistics about the generation and consumption of energy in the United States. Much of its extensive data catalog is available via their API.
- See the data available at: http://www.eia.gov/
- Read about the API at: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/
- You can get an API key from the above address
- Read more about the tool: http://homeenergyscore.lbl.gov/
- View the Score Tool API documentation: https://developers.buildingsapi.lbl.gov/hescore
- You can also view the Home Energy Saver API here: https://developers.buildingsapi.lbl.gov/hes
- To get an API key for the Home Energy Score, contact Charles (charles.worthington@ee.doe.gov or call 617-899-7854)
- Ideas for using the API, from the Buildings Technology Office at Dept. of Energy:
- Software to upload Home Energy Scores into multiple listing services
- A tool for utilities/local governments to use the energy score to quickly identify buildings in their territories most in need of energy efficiency upgrades; or to characterize housing stock in their areas for variety of purposes (e.g., analysis, defining incentive programs)
- Combine data collected in asset scoring systems with utility usage data to provide a combination asset and operational score (i.e., pull in EPA Yardstick score for residential buildings or Energy Star Portfolio Manager score for commercial buildings)
- Combine HEScore data or Asset Score data with utility usage to provide operational assessment and recommendations
- Prepopulate a full home energy audit by pulling data from HEScore (HESaver used to do this, but is temporarily not able to do so)
- Link to DSIRE (database of incentives) or other system to populate score reports with information on applicable rebates and upgrades.
- Link to EIA or other database of local utility rates to translate Home Energy Score or Asset Score calculations into estimated energy given actual rates for that home/building
- Read about the tool here: http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/commercial-building-energy-asset-score
- Learn about the tool's API here: https://assetscoreapi.pnnl.gov/api
- To get an API key, contact Charles (charles.worthington@ee.doe.gov or call 617-899-7854)
- The same ideas apply to this API as the Home Energy Score Tool ideas listed above
- You can take one of the winning ideas from contest one to use as a starting point for your application. View the winning ideas at: http://energychallenge.energy.gov/a/pages/contest1winners
Some useful information on how to connect between DOE EIA power plant data and EPA emissions and other datasets is available here: https://github.com/DruidSmith/civic-hacking/blob/master/EIA-EPA_Mashup.md - this can allow EPA data to be searched via EIA ORIS ID, as well as allowing EPA APIs to be leveraged, for example doing a radial search for power plants based on lat/long