Making energy more efficient is necessary for many reasons, including economizing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions for a cleaner planet. Advancing technologies are here to help, and the best way for developers to integrate with them is via APIs. Here are then 10 most popular Energy APIs.
Making energy more efficient is necessary for many reasons, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from coal and oil, reducing demand for energy imports, and saving money. Luckily for us, advancing technology is making it easier to conserve energy. Energy conservation innovations include energy data monitoring and smart automation, smart appliances, solar thermal systems, wind power, batteries and other renewable energy, LED and other efficient lighting, and Electrical Distribution System Optimization (EDSO). Developers wishing to create or enhance more applications for driving energy efficiency can look to APIs for help. An Energy API is an Application Programming Interface that developers can integrate with their own applications that provide energy data and services. The best place to find these APIs is in the Energy category on the ProgrammableWeb API directory. In this article we provide details of the 10 most popular Energy APIs determined by user visits to ProgrammableWeb. NASA POWER APITrack this API allows external applications to connect and interact with POWER Data, which is solar and meteorogical data from satellite observations. Data includes long-term climatologically averaged estimates of meteorological quantities and surface solar energy fluxes. Developers can also get time-series of daily meteorological and solar data with this API. The POWER Project is supported by NASA Earth Science’s Applied Sciences Program and provides data sets to support renewable energy, energy efficiency and agriculture. Solcast provides solar energy forecasts.
