Read the 2025 PUDL Annual Report to learn about PUDL developments as well as PUDL Sustainer plans for 2026.
2025 was the first year of the PUDL Sustainers Program. We designed the program to ensure the ongoing impact and reliability of PUDL: data and software are kept up to date, bugs are fixed, and everything gets tested and released on a regular schedule. At the same time, we sought to foster closer relationships with the organizations that rely heavily on PUDL data for their work, giving them an opportunity to see under the hood and weigh in on important decisions.
Thanks to support from our inaugural sustainers, RMI and GridLab, we were able to launch the program and keep PUDL up and running!
| 24,000 unique IPs Accessing PUDL data from cloud storage buckets | 577 users Registered for the PUDL Data Viewer | 70+ schools Accessing PUDL data |
| 20 archives Of new data added to Zenodo | 14 citations In academic journals, pre-prints, and theses (including Applied Energy, The Electricity Journal, and Environmental Research: Energy) | 14 new tables Including imputed FERC 714 and EIA 930 data, SEC 10-K outputs tracking parent-subsidiary company relationships, and AEO projected energy use data |
| 10 conferences Attendance and presentation at USAEE, INFORMS, EPRI, TWEEDS and others! | 8 terabytes Of PUDL data distributed through S3 and Zenodo | 4 interviews In the MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, Salon and Les Echos |