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 1.0
  OpenStreetMap contributors

  Basemap 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 refresh
  Global Energy Monitor

  Global 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)· Hourly
  European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity

  EU 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 4.0
  Ember Climate

  Country-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.

• Open Power System Data

  CC0
  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 4.0
  GeoNames.org

  11M place names with administrative hierarchy. Provides county / province / municipality labels for global stranded-site records.

• OpenInfraMap

  ODbL 1.0
  openinframap.org

  Visual 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· 2025-08
  SeerAI, 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 + monthly
  U.S. Energy Information Administration

  Generator-level inventory, capacity, fuel, and status for >1 MW plants.

• EIA Open Data API v2

  Public domain
  U.S. Energy Information Administration

  ISO LMPs, load, generation by source, hourly.

• ERCOT Public Reports

  ERCOT terms of use
  ERCOT

  PG7-200-ER (interconnection queue), NP4-160-SG (settlement points), NP6-905-CD (settlement point prices), Ancillary Services reports.

• gridstatus.io

  Per gridstatus.io terms
  Grid Status, Inc.

  Convenience wrapper for ERCOT LMPs and ancillary services pricing.

• FEMA NFHL

  Public domain
  Federal Emergency Management Agency

  Flood hazard zones, SFHA polygons, floodway and BFE attribution.

• Overture Maps Foundation

  CDLA Permissive 2.0 (with ODbL components for OSM-derived layers)
  Overture Maps Foundation

  Buildings, places, transportation, divisions worldwide.

• Protomaps basemaps

  BSD-3 / CC0 visual design
  Protomaps

  Vector tile basemap (PMTiles single-file format).

• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

  Public
  State of Texas

  JETI (Subchapter T) agreements, Chapter 312 abatements.

• IRS / Treasury Opportunity Zones

  Public domain
  U.S. Treasury / CDFI Fund

  Designated Opportunity Zone census tracts.

• BLS QCEW

  Public
  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  County-level construction wages and employment.

• EPA eGRID

  Public
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  Emissions intensity by subregion.

• Modo Energy / Tyba Energy

  Cited, not ingested
  Industry research

  BESS revenue stack composition (e.g., ECRS post-launch share); used to calibrate scoring weights, not as ingested data.