Sources and licenses.
Refinery Atlas is built on public and open-licensed data. Where a source carries an attribution requirement (CC BY 4.0, ODbL, CDLA), we preserve it. Where a source is cited as research input but not ingested, we say so explicitly.
OpenStreetMap
ODbL 1.0OpenStreetMap contributorsBasemap layers, fallback transmission and substation features outside HIFLD coverage. Primary source for global power=line / power=substation outside the United States.
Global Energy Monitor
CC BY 4.0· Quarterly refreshGlobal Energy MonitorGlobal trackers for steel, coal, gas, LNG, integrated mills, and bioenergy plants. We use the Steel Plant Tracker and Coal Plant Tracker to anchor stranded-asset clusters in Asia and Europe (closed and converting mills).
ENTSO-E Transparency Platform
Free (registration required)· HourlyEuropean Network of Transmission System Operators for ElectricityEU day-ahead market prices, generation by source, cross-border physical flows, and grid congestion. Calibrates the European entries in the LMP / volatility profile table.
EMBER Electricity Data Explorer
CC BY 4.0Ember ClimateCountry-level hourly generation, demand, carbon intensity, and per-fuel share. Sanity-checks ENTSO-E prices and provides single-country price benchmarks for Australia, Japan, Korea, India.
- openmod-initiative.org
Curated, harmonized EU TSO records — generation per plant, conventional fleet, time-series. Used in research mode to cross-validate ENTSO-E.
GeoNames
CC BY 4.0GeoNames.org11M place names with administrative hierarchy. Provides county / province / municipality labels for global stranded-site records.
OpenInfraMap
ODbL 1.0openinframap.orgVisual reference renderer for OSM power infrastructure. Used during ingestion QA to compare imported substations against the canonical OSM view.
HIFLD Archive
CC BY 4.0· 2025-08SeerAI, Inc. (mirror, 2025)Electric Power Transmission Lines, Electric Substations, Electric Power Plants. The HIFLD program was discontinued August 2025; SeerAI mirrors the archive in Google Cloud Storage as Parquet.
EIA-860 / EIA-860M
Public domain· Annual + monthlyU.S. Energy Information AdministrationGenerator-level inventory, capacity, fuel, and status for >1 MW plants.
EIA Open Data API v2
Public domainU.S. Energy Information AdministrationISO LMPs, load, generation by source, hourly.
ERCOT Public Reports
ERCOT terms of useERCOTPG7-200-ER (interconnection queue), NP4-160-SG (settlement points), NP6-905-CD (settlement point prices), Ancillary Services reports.
gridstatus.io
Per gridstatus.io termsGrid Status, Inc.Convenience wrapper for ERCOT LMPs and ancillary services pricing.
FEMA NFHL
Public domainFederal Emergency Management AgencyFlood hazard zones, SFHA polygons, floodway and BFE attribution.
Overture Maps Foundation
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (with ODbL components for OSM-derived layers)Overture Maps FoundationBuildings, places, transportation, divisions worldwide.
Protomaps basemaps
BSD-3 / CC0 visual designProtomapsVector tile basemap (PMTiles single-file format).
- State of Texas
JETI (Subchapter T) agreements, Chapter 312 abatements.
IRS / Treasury Opportunity Zones
Public domainU.S. Treasury / CDFI FundDesignated Opportunity Zone census tracts.
BLS QCEW
PublicU.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCounty-level construction wages and employment.
EPA eGRID
PublicU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEmissions intensity by subregion.
Modo Energy / Tyba Energy
Cited, not ingestedIndustry researchBESS revenue stack composition (e.g., ECRS post-launch share); used to calibrate scoring weights, not as ingested data.