Licenses and Access Rights
July 7, 2026
Ensuring the rights and terms and conditions for re-use is an important facet for an information discovery service. There are different types of content on the EDC and the EDC Portal, with different licenses and access rights having been assigned to these by their creators and/or authors.
These licenses will inform you as to what you are allowed to do with the content and what acknowledgment you need to provide. This page gives an overview of the licensing provisions.
Metadata within the Energy Data Centre
Metadata within the EDC and the EDC Portal uses the Open Government Licence (OGL). This allows for copying, publishing, distributing and transmitting the Information; adapting the Information; exploiting the Information commercially and non-commercially providing the EDC is attributed or the following sentence is used : Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Most details from the projects metadata comes from UKRI's Gateway to Research service and so itself is licensed under the OGL.
Research Data
Some of our datasets use CC-BY and OGL licenses. Others have specialised licenses or terms and conditions, which are detailed below.
Datasets with access restrictions
- Carbon Trust Advanced Metering Trial (2004-2006)
- Finance and procurement for net zero (FIPRO) - interview data
- Milton Keynes Energy Park Dwellings 1990
- P114 half-hourly GB electricity grid data
- Tidal Energy Site Environmental Conditions Measured During the ReDAPT Tidal Project 2011-2014
- UK Electricity Pool Demand and Price (1990-2001)
Datasets with licence requirements
Publications
Publications produced by the EDC team are issued under the CC-By licence. This allows for sharing, reuse and adaption providing the EDC is attributed. License details available from CC-BY.
For publications which are not produced by the EDC team or ETI, then license information is currently not recorded within the EDC and you should check what is in the document.
Publications with licence requirements
Images
Images are credited where necessary. Image credits can be found by selecting the image.
Images used elsewhere are produced by the EDC, UKERC or UKRI.