Energy data is public. Finding it shouldn’t be a career.
Utility territories are buried in PDFs. Rate structures are scattered across regulatory filings. Grid operator boundaries shift without notice. Service territory maps live in state PUC filing systems that require case-by-case requests. Primary identifiers vary by source.
Anyone building software, research, or policy analysis that touches energy infrastructure hits the same fragmented landscape. The data exists—it just hasn’t been assembled, normalized, and kept current in one place.
A connected graph, not a collection of spreadsheets.
CommonGrid structures data around entities and their relationships, not flat datasets. A utility links to its service territory. A territory links to its grid operator. A program links to the utilities offering it. A rate links to the territory it applies in. Every entity is a node in the same connected graph.
You can start anywhere—a zip code, a co-op name, an ISO—and navigate outward to everything related. No manual joins. No spreadsheet archaeology.
Built by Texture. Opened to everyone.
Texture, an energy software company, created CommonGrid. While building our platform, we spent years normalizing data from EIA, FERC, HIFLD, NOAA, state PUC filings, and hundreds of other sources. The result: a structured, relational model of the U.S. energy landscape.
We decided to open it. Not because we had to (the underlying sources are public), but because the normalization work is tedious and repetitive. Doing it once for the whole industry makes more sense than having every team repeat it.
Texture’s competitive edge comes from combining this context with real operational data: device telemetry, customer accounts, control systems. That layer stays proprietary. The registry—what every energy software team needs—is the commons.
Open, transparent, community-maintained.
CommonGrid runs on an open contribution model. Anyone can view and download the data. Editing requires an account. Version history is public. Anyone can propose a change. Every change is attributable, reviewable, and reversible.
- Public user
- View data, download exports, browse change history. No account required.
- Contributor
- Propose edits, attach sources and rationale, participate in discussion.
- Trusted editor
- Review and approve changesets from contributors.
- Domain moderator
- Moderate specific utilities, regions, or data classes.
- System admin
- Override policies, handle escalations and abuse.
Propose, review, merge—not edit and ship.
Energy data errors can be costly and hard to detect. A wrong territory boundary, an outdated rate schedule, or a misclassified ISO assignment can break downstream systems. CommonGrid uses a changeset model: edits are proposed as versioned diffs, reviewed by moderators or trusted editors, and merged into the canonical dataset only after approval.
Find something wrong
Spot incorrect or missing data while browsing any entity.
Propose a change
Submit a versioned changeset with a diff, source citation, and rationale.
Review
Moderators review for accuracy, sourcing, and consistency with schema.
Merge & publish
Approved changes merge into the canonical dataset. Full history stays visible.
Seeded from authoritative public records.
We seed CommonGrid from government and regulatory sources, then maintain it through community contributions. Every field traces back to a citable origin.
- EIA-860
- Annual Electric Generator Report — power plants, generator details, fuel types, capacity data
- EIA-861
- Annual Electric Power Industry report — utility ownership, customers, sales, revenue data
- HIFLD
- Homeland Infrastructure Foundation — electric utility boundaries, 52,000+ transmission lines
- DOE AFDC
- Alternative Fuels Data Center — 85,000+ EV charging stations, network, connector, access data
- CAISO / ERCOT / MISO / SPP / PJM / ISO-NE / NYISO
- ISO/RTO open data systems — pricing nodes, market participants, interconnection queues
- FERC
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — ISO/RTO boundaries and wholesale market data
- State PUC Records
- State Public Utility Commission filings — rate structures and regulatory data
Open Database License (ODbL).
CommonGrid uses the Open Database License (ODbL). You can freely use, modify, and redistribute the data. If you publicly distribute a derivative database, you must credit CommonGrid and share it under the same terms. This keeps the commons from being absorbed into closed products.