Pull DOE's EAGLE-I county-level power outage data via ORNL's public Open Energy Data Portal
domain: openenergyhub.ornl.gov · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Confirm EAGLE-I is DOE/ORNL's near-real-time situational-awareness platform for electric outages, aggregated from utility public outage maps via an ETL process, covering roughly 92% of US customers
Access the historic dataset (county-level, 15-minute intervals, 2014-2025) for free through the Open Energy Data Portal at openenergyhub.ornl.gov, built on the Opendatasoft platform in partnership with DOE's Office of Electricity
Use the portal's per-dataset Explore API (Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1, documented in-portal for each dataset) for programmatic queries, or bulk-download files directly — no account is required to browse and download
For citation-grade use, pull the specific dataset DOIs (e.g., the 2014-2022 release and subsequent annual releases) from OSTI.gov rather than only linking the portal UI
Known gotchas
EAGLE-I is a historical/near-real-time reporting dataset assembled from utilities' own public outage maps, not a live control-room feed — expect reporting lag and gaps where a utility's outage map was unavailable
Multiple access surfaces exist (OSTI.gov, openenergyhub.ornl.gov, ORNL's Opendatasoft mirror) — confirm which release/version and date range a given file covers before using it
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