Global dataset of active volcanoes along with active and potential geothermal sites. The dataset provides geographic coordinates of; 1) active volcanoes that have erupted in the last 10,000 years worldwide for use by Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAAC) as compiled by the Smisthonian Institution (https://volcano.si.edu/projects/vaac-data/) ; 2) Geographic coordinates of active geothermal sites; 3) Geographic coordinates of potential geothermal sites. Both 2) and 3) were compiled by Coro and Trumpy, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121874). These data are compiled together in a map in the publication Lavallée et al., 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798724000292). The data compiled here are global datasets and the map was created at LMU Munich. The open-source data from Smisthonian Institution is collected and updated since 2013. All data used by Lavallée et al., 2025 were sourced and compiled in January 2024.The compilation was done using Matlab and a basemap provided by ESRI in 2009 The data were used to show how the potential and safe use of magma energy by geothermal power plants at recently active volcanoes could help with the energy transition.
