Welcome to the UKERC Energy Data Centre
STFC's Energy Research Unit welcomes you to the Energy Data Centre (EDC). This platform is designed to be your destination for everything related to energy research in the UK, including:
- Portal - A searchable gateway to UK energy research data, projects, publications, and visualisations.
- Blogs and News – Stay informed with the latest insights and updates from the EDC, UKERC and the wider energy research community.
- Policies and Guidance – Access essential resources to support best practices in data management.
- Help and Support – Find assistance and tools to make working with energy research data easier and more effective.
What’s New? We’re introducing a new service: the Data Stewardship Wizard later this month. This tool is designed to help Data Stewards create and manage robust Data Management Plans, ensuring compliance and improving data quality across projects.
Looking Ahead In the second half of 2026 and into 2027, we’ll be rolling out a new version of the Energy Data Centre portal, offering enhanced functionality and improved integration to better serve the energy research community.
Welcome to the UKERC Energy Data Centre
STFC's Energy Research Unit welcomes you to the Energy Data Centre (EDC). This platform is designed to be your destination for everything related to energy research in the UK, including:
- Portal - A searchable gateway to UK energy research data, projects, publications, and visualisations.
- Blogs and News – Stay informed with the latest insights and updates from the EDC, UKERC and the wider energy research community.
- Policies and Guidance – Access essential resources to support best practices in data management.
- Help and Support – Find assistance and tools to make working with energy research data easier and more effective.
What’s New? We’re introducing a new service: the Data Stewardship Wizard later this month. This tool is designed to help Data Stewards create and manage robust Data Management Plans, ensuring compliance and improving data quality across projects.
Looking Ahead In the second half of 2026 and into 2027, we’ll be rolling out a new version of the Energy Data Centre portal, offering enhanced functionality and improved integration to better serve the energy research community.
UKERC EDC Portal
The UKERC Energy Data Centre (EDC) Portal is a platform that provides access to UK energy research data and tools, supporting FAIR principles to make research outputs easier to find, use, and reuse.
OUR PORTAL HOLDS:
DATASETS
PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
Over the last quarter, approximately 146,945 users from around the world visited the EDC portal, including 10,214 from the UK. Among them, 81% engaged with projects, 8% explored datasets, and 9% viewed publications.
Latest Blog Posts
The EDC at iPRES 2026!
The EDC's Data Steward Oliver Brough attended iPRES 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark, brining together members of the digital preservation community from across the globe to discuss the current tools and standards used in the space, the difficulties encountered in certain aspects of the field, and the future implications impacting digital preservation in a changing world. The EDC presented a poster on how the team ensures their collection of non-formally published publications (Grey Literature) are kept secure through data redundancy and integrity checking. The conference provided the team with a clear understanding of the current tools and best practices that can be incorporated into the EDC's workflows to ensure our collections of energy data continue to be maintained at a high standard.
Does the Weather see a Solar Eclipse?
The recent solar eclipse that happened on 12th August 2026 marked the most complete solar eclipse UK has had in 27 years. The Energy Research Unit at RAL has been tracking weather data including solar irradiance and temperature for the past 40 years, and in this blog we explore how these measurements can be used to view a solar eclipse through data.
The EDC at the UKERC Annual Assembly 2026
The EDC team attended the UKERC 2026 Annual Assembly held at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, which brought together UKERC members from across the consortium along with members from industry and government. This event showcased the working being done within the UKERC research themes, promoted discussions on the importance of energy research within the current energy landscape, and promoted cross-consortium collaboration through Research Integration. The EDC gave a talk discussing the recent work the team has been doing including the introduction of new data management tools and continued improvements to our service. This led to numerous discussions on new ways the EDC could further collaborate with the wider UKERC consortium.