EU Energy & Education Data Search

Search 18 official European energy and education data sources in a single API call — ENTSO-G gas transmission flows, Eurostat electricity prices, energy balances, renewable energy statistics, ESCO skills and occupations taxonomy, Eurostat education indicators, and OpenAIRE research publications. All data from official European institutions through the SIP Public Data Gateway.

What is EU Energy & Education Data Search?

EU Energy & Education Data Search is an Apify Actor that queries official European energy infrastructure and education databases. Instead of navigating ENTSO-G transparency platform, Eurostat bulk download, ESCO portal, and OpenAIRE separately, you search them all at once.

The Actor calls the SIP Public Data Gateway — a unified API that normalizes responses from 18 EU data products. No browser, no scraping — just HTTPS API calls to official sources.

Why use EU Energy & Education Data Search?

• One search, 18 sources — Query gas flows, electricity prices, energy balances, skills taxonomy, and education statistics simultaneously
• Official EU data — All sources are public databases from ENTSO-G, Eurostat, ESCO, and OpenAIRE
• Energy market intelligence — Household and industrial electricity prices, gas/oil/energy balances, renewable energy share across all EU member states
• Labor market skills — ESCO taxonomy with 3,000+ occupations and 13,000+ skills used in EU job matching systems
• No upstream API keys — SIP handles all upstream authentication; you only need one SIP key

Use cases

Who	What
Energy analysts	Compare electricity prices across EU countries, track renewable energy adoption
Gas traders	Monitor ENTSO-G physical gas flows and interconnection point capacities
Climate researchers	Access energy balance sheets, oil/gas consumption, and renewable share data
HR & workforce planners	Search ESCO occupations and skills for job classification and workforce mapping
Education policy analysts	Compare enrollment, graduation rates, mobility, and expenditure across EU
Academic researchers	Find EU-funded research publications and project metadata via OpenAIRE

What data can EU Energy & Education Data Search extract?

Source	Data type	Example fields
ENTSO-G gas flows	Physical gas transmission flows	point, direction, flow_value, unit
ENTSO-G interconnection	Gas network connection points	point_name, country, operator, type
Eurostat electricity (household)	Residential electricity prices	country, band, price, currency, period
Eurostat electricity (industrial)	Industrial electricity prices	country, band, price, currency, period
Eurostat electricity supply	Generation, imports, consumption	country, indicator, value, unit
Eurostat energy balance	Complete national energy balances	country, product, flow, value
Eurostat gas balance	Natural gas supply and consumption	country, indicator, value, unit
Eurostat oil balance	Crude oil and petroleum products	country, product, indicator, value
Eurostat renewable energy	Renewable energy share by country	country, sector, share_percent
ESCO occupations	3,000+ EU occupation classifications	occupation_title, isco_code, description
ESCO skills	13,000+ skills and competences	skill_label, skill_type, reuse_level
Eurostat education enrollment	Student enrollment by level/country	country, isced_level, students
Eurostat education expenditure	Public spending on education	country, level, expenditure_gdp
Eurostat education graduates	Graduation rates and fields	country, field, graduates
Eurostat education mobility	International student mobility	country, direction, students
Eurostat education personnel	Teaching staff statistics	country, level, personnel
Eurostat education regional	Regional education indicators	region, indicator, value
OpenAIRE publications	EU research papers and datasets	title, authors, journal, doi, project

How to search EU energy and education data

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console
2. Enter search terms (e.g. "solar", "natural gas", "data scientist", "engineering")
3. Select data categories — energy and ESCO are enabled by default
4. Click Start — the Actor queries all enabled sources in parallel
5. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["solar", "wind"],
  "includeGasInfrastructure": false,
  "includeEnergyStatistics": true,
  "includeEscoTaxonomy": false,
  "includeEducationStatistics": false,
  "includeResearchPublications": true,
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50
}

Output

Each row is a record from an EU energy or education source:

{
  "country": "DE",
  "indicator": "Renewable energy share",
  "value": "20.4",
  "unit": "percent",
  "period": "2024",
  "_product_id": "eu_eurostat_renewable_energy",
  "_source": "eurostat_renewable_energy",
  "_search_term": "solar",
  "_collected_at": "2026-04-08T12:00:00Z"
}

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event pricing at $3.00 per 1,000 records returned.

• Quick lookup (1 term, energy stats only): ~$0.01–0.10
• Comprehensive research (5 terms, all 18 sources): ~$0.50–3.00

No browser overhead — lightweight API calls only. Control costs with maxResultsPerSource.

Data sources (18 EU products)

Category	Sources	Count
ENTSO-G gas infrastructure	Gas flows, interconnection points	2
Eurostat energy	Electricity prices (household/industrial), electricity supply, energy balance, gas balance, oil balance, renewable energy	7
ESCO taxonomy	Occupations (3,000+), skills (13,000+)	2
Eurostat education	Enrollment, expenditure, graduates, mobility, personnel, regional	6
Research publications	OpenAIRE (EU research graph)	1

FAQ

How current is energy pricing data? Eurostat energy data is typically updated semi-annually (S1/S2). ENTSO-G gas flows can be near real-time depending on the transmission point. SIP caches responses briefly but fetches from official upstream sources.

What is ESCO? The European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations classification. It maps occupations to required skills and is used by EURES job portals and EU labor market systems. Useful for job matching, curriculum design, and workforce analytics.

Can I compare electricity prices across countries? Yes. Search with a generic term like "electricity" with includeEnergyStatistics enabled. Results include country, consumption band, and price per kWh for both household and industrial consumers.

Is OpenAIRE the same as Google Scholar? No. OpenAIRE is the EU's official open research infrastructure. It indexes publications from EU-funded projects (Horizon 2020/Europe) and links them to datasets, project metadata, and funding information — data not available in general academic search engines.

Use as MCP Tool (AI Agent Integration)

This Actor works as an MCP tool — AI agents (Claude, GPT, Cursor) can discover and run it automatically.

Quick setup (Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code)

Add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then ask your AI: "Search for solar energy in EU energy databases"

Direct API call

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("lentic_clockss/eu-energy-education-search").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["solar"], "maxResultsPerSource": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

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