Write an archiver for US GHG Emissions Inventory

[zaneselvans]

Motivation and context:

The GHGRP requires reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) data and other relevant information from large GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites in the United States. Approximately 8,000 facilities are required to report their emissions annually, and the reported data are made available to the public in October of each year.

Links

Include a link to the dataset webpage and any metadata documentation.

• https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2022
• https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/archive-ghg-reporting-program-data-sets

Requirements for archiving

To be archived on Zenodo, a dataset must be:

• published under an open license that permits reuse and redistribution
• less than 50Gb in size (when zipped)
• relevant to energy modelling and research

Checklist for archive creation

Based on the README documentation on creating a new archive:

• Define the dataset's metadata
• Implement archiver interface
• Test archiver locally
• Test uploading to Zenodo
• Manually review archive before publication
• Finalize archive (only core Catalyst developers can complete this step)
• Automate archiving

Links to published archives:

Include a link to the published sandbox archive for review.

[e-belfer]

Another organization plans to archive this elsewhere, so this should take less priority than others in our list! I updated the priority to reflect this.