accurrently / openei-rates

A Python module for grabbing utility rates from OpenEI.org and providing electrical price lookup functionality.

openei-rates

A Python package that retrieves energy rates from OpenEI.org for use in energy data applications.

Overview

This package has one main purpose: to fetch electrical utility rates from OpenEI's database and provide facilities to query those rate structures to determine the cost of operating equipment. This is accomplished through Pandas, and Numpy. Numba is employed in order to speed lookups of rate information in Numba arrays.

Features

This package is supposed to do x things:

1. Retrieve of rates from OpenEI.org
2. Load appropriate rate data into Numpy arrays for querying
3. Provide efficient lookups of energy and power prices given a timestamp and quantity of power (or energy) used.
4. Allow pricing analysis on power demand (in kW) stored in a pandas.Series that has a pandas.DatetimeIndex index.

Credits

This project was produced with funding from the UC Davis Energy Graduate Group, the UC Davis Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center, and Office of Naval Research NEPTUNE

License

Free software: Apache Software License 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.