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Sources and licences.

Data sources, base maps and licences used by the Critical Radar. Every entry names its source; the licence is listed here.

As of 28 October 2026 · SAFETEE editorial team

Data sources and base maps

  • Base map: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Political order: V-Dem Dataset v16 (2026), Regimes of the World (Lührmann, Tannenberg, Lindberg), CC BY-SA 4.0. Derived data is licensed under the same terms.
  • Legislative status: German Bundestag, Documentation and Information System for Parliamentary Materials (DIP), dip.bundestag.de, under the DIP terms of use. Source: Deutscher Bundestag, DIP.
  • Additions, capacity, plans and large plants: Marktstammdatenregister of the Bundesnetzagentur, Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), edited (aggregated).
  • Electricity generation, grid load and market price: Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, CC BY 4.0, edited (SMARD terms of use, section 111d EnWG).
  • Transmission grid unavailabilities: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, items 6 and 7 of the "List of data available for free re-use", CC BY 4.0, edited. Other platform data (generation, load, prices, generation unit unavailabilities) is not used because it is not freely licensed.
  • Gas storage and LNG: GIE AGSI+ and GIE ALSI (Gas Infrastructure Europe). Crude oil prices: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), public domain.
  • Gas prices: Eurostat (dataset code and retrieval date on the tile). Production and construction price index: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), GENESIS-Online, dl-de/by-2-0.
  • Hydrogen projects: IEA, Hydrogen Production and Infrastructure Projects Database, IEA, Paris, Licence: CC BY 4.0 (extract Germany, as of 06/2026).
  • Electricity generation and installed capacity: Energy-Charts / Fraunhofer ISE (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE), used with the institute's written permission, these two time series only, no exchange prices. Source: Energy-Charts / Fraunhofer ISE.
  • Items marked (ots): Presseportal / news aktuell (Originaltextservice) under the terms of news aktuell: ots mark and link to the original story, the publishers' copyright notices, hidden after two years at the latest. Details below.
  • Warnings in the ticker: NINA / BBK (Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance), message text unaltered. Source: NINA / BBK, named with every item.
  • Weather warnings: Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service), used under the GeoNutzV. Source: Deutscher Wetterdienst. The warning text is reproduced unaltered.
  • Water levels: WSV/PEGELONLINE (Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration). Source: WSV/PEGELONLINE.
  • Earthquakes: GEOFON catalogue, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences. © GFZ (GEOFON) 2026.
  • Tenders: TED – Tenders Electronic Daily, Publications Office of the European Union, reuse with attribution. Source: TED – Tenders Electronic Daily, Publications Office of the EU.
  • Construction output: Eurostat (dataset sts_copr_m, dataset code shown on the tile), reuse with attribution, edited (selection of series).
  • Power plant list: Bundesnetzagentur, Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), edited (aggregated).
  • Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Georeferenced Event Dataset, Candidate Events – CC BY 4.0. Source: UCDP, Uppsala University.
  • The GDELT Project – free to use with attribution. Only figures (news volume, tone) are used, no article texts.
  • World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability) – CC BY 4.0.
  • Robert Koch Institute (RKI), wastewater surveillance AMELAG and ARI consultation incidence – CC BY 4.0. Source: Robert Koch Institute.
  • World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet) – CC BY 4.0. Source: World Bank.
  • Source: ECB statistics. Values are shown unchanged; changes are our own calculation.
  • State indicators (main construction trade, building permits, insolvencies): Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), GENESIS-Online, Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), edited (selection; change on the same month last year calculated or taken over).
  • Air quality: German Environment Agency (UBA), air data, Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), edited (share of monitoring stations per federal state).

Publisher releases (ots) and dpa

Items marked (ots) come from the Originaltextservice of news aktuell (presseportal.de). The rights holder and responsible party is the respective publisher (company, association or authority), not news aktuell. We show only the original title, publisher, time and the link to the original story; we do not shorten, translate or rephrase ots texts and take no images, videos or documents.

ots releases are interested sources: a company or association release never counts as independent confirmation. Releases by public authorities (police, fire brigade, ministries) count as official primary sources; the (ots) mark stays nevertheless. Usage notes contained in the material are published with it.

ots is not dpa agency material. Without our own dpa licence we do not take over dpa reports, headlines or images; articles containing dpa material are only linked and referenced in our own words.

ots content is hidden at the latest two years after publication and immediately on request of the rights holder, including in the archive and in generated PDFs. “Source hidden” appears in its place.

Principles

  • The source of each statement is given directly with the entry.
  • Forecasts are estimates by SAFETEE and do not constitute advice in individual cases.
  • Questions about a source or a licence: radar@safetee.eu