Below is a list of useful data sources on energy and emissions. Suggestions for additions are welcome, and please use the comments for this.
General
Gapminder – Excellent source for data visualization of a range of metrics
Carbon Emissions
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
UK Emissions Data – Committee on Climate Change
International Energy Statistics
EIA – Installed fossil fuel capacity by country
International Energy Agency CO2 emissions from fuel combustion
EIA – beta (potentially good source of US energy data. Still rough round the edges)
World Bank – Energy and Mining
EIA – Electricity capacity etc.
Renewables
US – wind turbine database – USGS
National Electricity Data
US state by state energy consumption and production
Historical UK electricity output by fuel – DECC
US monthly electricity production by fuel source
Real time Solar PV production in Germany
Germany current electricity production
Elexon – Historic UK electricity production by sources
Ireland electricity generation and CO2 intensity
Spain electricity generation and CO2 intensity
Denmark electricity generation
EIA – US electricity production by state
PF Bach – Hourly renewable energy production for a few countries
Australia electricity production
Portugal electricity production
ENTSO – European production by country (mostly monthly)
ENTSO – European cross border electricity exchanges
Fraunhofer ISE – Renewable Energy Data for Germany
Coal
Population Issues
Nuclear
Historic capacity factors of nuclear power plants
Maps
Global solar and wind resource maps
Materials Production
USGS – Cement Production Statistics
Shipping
Energy Storage
Carbon Counter 
February 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Here are some suggestions:
CDIAC for emissions: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/meth_reg.html
CDIAC for lots of things: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/
Global Carbon Budget: http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/
IEA: http://www.iea.org/co2highlights/
EDGAR: http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php
UNFCCC, if you want the official data: http://unfccc.int/national_reports/items/1408.php
Eurostat has quite some stuff: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/environment/introduction
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April 8, 2015 at 10:15 pm
All sorts of energy information available with efforts to be transparent re assumptions
http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page
I’ve been looking at TCDB Transparent Cost Database in particular: http://en.openei.org/wiki/Transparent_Cost_Database
Various power markets and their real-time data http://www.powermarkets.org/power-tools.html
All sorts of indicators, including energy and emissions http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
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August 21, 2015 at 7:12 am
Thank you for lots of links – most of them alive and well and interesting. The link for “Nordic electricity generation” has “died” and can now be found at
http://www.svk.se/stamnatet/kontrollrummet/
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