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US fossil fuel power plant locations and stakeholders (owner, operator, asset manager) with generator level consumption, output, emissions, lifecycle, energy type and other characteristics sourced from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Industry Domain:

Energy & Natural Resources
Publisher:

IHS Markit
Content Type:

Structured
Access/Delivery Methods:

REST, Python, S3 Proxy, SQL
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Data Set
Dataset Name | Dataset Description | Data Format | Publishing Frequency |
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US Power Plant Generator Ownership | Percentage ownership data, at the generator level, for all power plants contained in related EIA 860 datasets. Plant_Code can be used to attach owners to power plants. Contains name and location data for all asset owners. | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plant Generation and Fuel Use History | Monthly and annual historical detailed operational electric power data on electricity generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel stocks and receipts at the power plant and prime mover level from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 923 form. | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plant Production and Emissions | Electric power plant hourly operational data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS), including gross load, steam load, CO2 NOx and SO2 emissions and emission rates, and heat input data. | Parquet | Quarterly |
US Power Plant Generator Characteristics | Electric power plant database data with generator-specific information about existing generators at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity, including status, equipment, retrofits, and technology characteristics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 860 form. | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plants | US power plant name, location (state, count, city, zip, address, lat/long), balancing authority, water source, regulation, ash impoundment, transmission and distribution, voltage, pipeline, storage type | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plant Proposed Generators | Electric power plant database data with generator-specific information about planned generators at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity, including status, equipment, retrofits, and technology characteristics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 860 form. | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plant Utilities | A list of utilities in the United States from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 860 form that can be associated with the power plant, generator, and ownership databases using associated IDs. Contains location and typing information. | Parquet | Yearly |
US Power Plant Generator Retirement | Electric power plant database data with generator-specific information about retired generators at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity, including status, equipment, retrofits, and technology characteristics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 860 form. | Parquet | Yearly |

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