EIA Form 860 Plants — every US electric power plant (15k locations + utility + NERC region)

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Every electric generation plant location in the US from EIA Form 860 — 15,070 plants. Per plant: utility owner + utility ID, plant code + name, full physical address, latitude + longitude, balancing authority (CAISO/MISO/PJM/ERCOT/etc), NERC region, primary purpose (NAICS), sector. Joins via plant_code to eia_generators (one plant has 1-50 generators) and eia_owners (joint-ownership chain).

Source agency
US Energy Information Administration
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
15,070 plants (2023 form)
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Keywords

EIA 860electric utilitypower plant locationbalancing authorityMISO PJM CAISO ERCOTNERC regionplant code

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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