With an aim to provide single-window access to the energy data for the country, government think tank Niti Aayog launched India Energy Dashboards (IED) Version 2.0.

NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar said that it is an endeavour to establish a central energy database of the country. 

A strong cross-ministerial coordination of all the energy ministries is required for planning and policy implementation. IED is an initial step towards building a comprehensive, open and freely accessible energy data portal for India.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insights to inspire those in a position to make a difference.

Features of India Energy Dashboards:

• Niti Aayog launched Version 1.0 in May 2017.

• Version 2.0 provides time series data from FY 2005-06 until FY 2019-20.

• It enables easy downloading of data into convenient spreadsheet formats.

• Provides data at sub-yearly frequencies as well. This includes monthly data and Application Programming Interface (API) linked data from some portals maintained by the government agencies. The monthly data is sourced from the monthly reports that are regularly published for the electricity, petroleum and natural gas sectors.

• Energy data published/provided by Central Electricity Authority, Coal Controller’s Organisation and ministry of petroleum & natural gas have been compiled in the dashboards.

• A semi-automated workflow/ issue-tracking system for managing periodic updates to the IED. The workflow system performs basic checks and data validation, helping to avoid incorrect data entry.

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