What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Regulators and DSOs publishing distribution/use-of-system tariffs; ACER/CEER, national energy agencies; price-comparison and market-data… | per tariff class per year; per kWh/kW/connection charges | public |
| geospatial/movement | DSO GIS departments; national grid capacity maps and heatmaps (e.g. UK DNO capacity maps, Enedis open data), cadastral/utility registries | per asset: line segment, pole, substation, service connection; polygon per… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National energy regulators (licence registers), TSO/DSO connection registers, distributed-generation and EV-charger connection registries… | per licence, per connection application, per DER installation | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices, sector associations (Eurelectric), company annual/sustainability reports, union agreements | annual headcount/FTE per company or per country NACE class | public |
| reviews & sentiment | National regulators' customer-satisfaction surveys of network operators (e.g. Ofgem/BSC broad measure), consumer ombudsman complaint… | quarterly/annual per operator; per complaint case | public |
| financial filings | Regulated network companies' annual reports, regulatory accounts (RIIO in UK, RAB filings), FERC Form 1 in US, company registries | annual per legal entity/licence area, with regulatory cost categories | public |
| incident/safety/claims | DSOs' outage management systems, national regulators collecting SAIDI/SAIFI/CAIDI (CEER, EIA/OE-417 in US, Ofgem, Bundesnetzagentur)… | per interruption event (start, duration, customers affected); annual… | public |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | DSOs and regulators publishing substation/feeder capacity headroom and utilisation heatmaps; flexibility markets (Piclo, NODES) with… | per primary/secondary substation, annual or seasonal peak utilisation % | public |
| waste & emissions | DSOs reporting SF6/insulating-gas leakage and network losses to regulators; EU F-gas reporting; sustainability reports; PCB/oil waste… | annual per operator; per asset for SF6 inventory | public |
| quality & compliance testing | DSOs and regulators for voltage quality (EN 50160) compliance reports, metering accuracy verification bodies, national metrology institutes | per measurement site per week/year; per meter type approval | public |
| energy consumption | Distribution system operators (DSOs) and metering agents (e.g. Enedis, E.ON, National Grid Electricity Distribution), national smart-meter… | 15-min or hourly per metering point; aggregated per substation/postcode… | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | DSO load-forecasting and storm-response teams combining meteorological feeds (national met services, DTN, Vaisala) with load and outage data | hourly per grid zone; per storm event | partnership |
| production output | DSOs and TSOs metering distributed generation (rooftop PV, small wind, CHP) connected at distribution level; ENTSO-E Transparency Platform… | hourly per connected generator; aggregated per licence area | partnership |
| customer demographics | DSOs' connection registers (connection type, capacity, tariff band, priority-services/vulnerable-customer registers), national statistics… | per connection point; aggregated per postcode | partnership |
| transactional/sales | DSOs billing suppliers for use-of-system charges; settlement bodies and market operators (Elexon, EPEX-adjacent settlement agents) | per metering point per settlement period, invoiced monthly per supplier | exclusive |
| inventory & supply chain | DSO procurement and warehouse systems for transformers, cable, meters; equipment manufacturers (Hitachi Energy, Prysmian, Nexans) with… | per SKU per warehouse; per purchase order | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | DSO SCADA/ADMS and distribution automation systems, smart meter head-end vendors (Landis+Gyr, Itron, Siemens), fault passage indicators and… | seconds-to-minutes per feeder, transformer, recloser or meter | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | DSO asset-management systems (SAP PM, IBM Maximo), inspection contractors, LiDAR/vegetation-survey vendors, transformer oil-testing labs | per asset per inspection/work order | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.