Global Energy Monitor Global Integrated Power Tracker

GEM's integrated tracker consolidates its coal, gas, oil, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar and bioenergy trackers into one unit-level inventory with status, capacity, location and ownership. It is the most complete open global fleet dataset and it fails the anonymous-access criterion: the download is behind a registration form, which lands it at Tier 2 despite being otherwise model-ready. That is the tier framework doing its job — the constraint is an access path, not data quality, and conflating the two would misinform the user.

Identifier

https://catalog.opengrid.org/ds/gem-global-integrated-power-tracker

Domains

Generator fleet

Keywords

GEM, capacity, global, power plants, tracker, units

Provenance class

curated

Upstream sources

Not capturedWhich is a statement about what the catalog can show, not about how the data was produced.

Supersedes

wri-global-power-plant-database

Licence

CC-BY-4.0

Redistribution

Not captured

• Provenance

  –Not yet assessed

  Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.

• Documentation

  –Not yet assessed

  Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.

• Currency & maintenance

  ACurrent

  Last updated 2026-07-01 against a stated cadence of P6M; next due 2027-02-11.

This record is at completeness level 1. Provenance and Documentation are assessed from field-level metadata, which a level 1 record does not carry. Not yet assessed is not the same as poor.

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• Ember Global Electricity Review and Renewable Target TrackerStrength 3 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Emissions Accounting.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Emissions Accounting.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2000-01-01 to 2025-12-31.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 100% of their combined extent.
• WRI Global Power Plant DatabaseStrength 2 of 5Supersedes

  Supersedes WRI Global Power Plant Database, which this record replaces.

  • · Coverage overlaps from 2000-01-01 to 2021-06-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 100% of their combined extent.
  • · Both are point.
• Global Transmission DatabaseStrength 2 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2020-01-01 to 2024-01-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 100% of their combined extent.
• ECMWF ERA5 reanalysisStrength 2 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2000-01-01 to 2026-07-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 100% of their combined extent.
• NREL National Solar Radiation DatabaseStrength 2 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2000-01-01 to 2024-12-31.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 19% of their combined extent.
• EIA natural gas prices and Short-Term Energy OutlookStrength 2 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2000-01-01 to 2026-07-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 9% of their combined extent.
• PyPSA-Eur weather cutoutsStrength 2 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2013-01-01 to 2023-12-31.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 3% of their combined extent.
• EIA-930 Hourly Electric Grid MonitorStrength 1 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Emissions Accounting and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Emissions Accounting and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2015-07-01 to 2026-07-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 9% of their combined extent.
• OpenGrid Reference: Cascade InterconnectStrength 1 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
• PyPSA-Eur grid dataset (pre-built OSM network)Strength 1 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling and Production Cost Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2024-01-01 to 2024-08-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 3% of their combined extent.
• NREL Annual Technology BaselineStrength 1 of 5Complementary

  Both feed: Capacity Expansion Modeling.

  • · Both feed Capacity Expansion Modeling.
  • · Coverage overlaps from 2022-01-01 to 2026-07-01.
  • · Bounding boxes overlap over 9% of their combined extent.

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• XLSX behind a registration form

  ● Checked and working

  Size:

  40 MiB

  No account needed:

  No

  Credentials:

  Registration form; no API key, no programmatic path

  Open at source ↗Report