World Resources Institute — Global Power Plant Database

Name: World Resources Institute — Global Power Plant Database
Creator: World Resources Institute
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Energy

Source: Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute — Global Power Plant Database. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

45,992

Temporal coverage

2013-12-31 – 2020-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute — Global Power Plant Database. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase
Provider terms: https://github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database

How to cite

World Resources Institute — Global Power Plant Database. Retrieved from https://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download gppd series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/gppd
Update cadence: static
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet (data/clean_full/gppd/gppd.parquet, ~714 KB). Schema: series_key, obs_date, value.

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets