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Power generation/United States of America

EIA Form 860 data

The official list of all power plants with over 1 MW capacity is available at https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/ , released yearly. It provides, among many other pieces of data, assigned identifiers for each plant, along with the street address, lat/lon & grid voltage(s). For each generator within a plant, the technology & prime mover, capacity (in MW), fuel(s), & when it started are all given.

We should use this information and refer back to it for all US power plants.

It has been cleaned up and correlated with other government released data by https://catalyst.coop/pudl/ (unfortunately currently licensed under CC-BY-4.0, which isn't exactly compatibile with OSM).

There is an existing key, ref:US:EIA=*, for adding the EIA Form 860 plant identifiers.

Source & method mapping

The EIA 860 data describes each generator at a plant with multiple fields related to our plant:source=* & plant:method=* tags: "Technology", "Prime Mover", and multiple "Energy Source" and "Startup Source" fields (6 for Energy Source, 4 for Startup Source). The "Energy Source" and "Startup Source" fields use the same controlled vocabulary, and the "Prime Mover" used a different one. The "Technology" field doesn't use a controlled vocabulary, but there are only 29 different values in the current (2020) data.

I'll post all three lists below, with spaces for us to fill in the appropriate plant:source=* & plant:method=* tags. I'd be glad for help figuring out the best mapping. JesseFW (talk) 22:29, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Actually, I'm not sure how the three vocabularies should interact, so I'll just post all three, without the spaces to fill in the mapping; we can work that out later. JesseFW (talk) 22:45, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Technology
All Other
Batteries
Coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
Conventional Hydroelectric
Conventional Steam Coal
Flywheels
Geothermal
Hydroelectric Pumped Storage
Landfill Gas
Municipal Solid Waste
Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine
Natural Gas Steam Turbine
Natural Gas with Compressed Air Storage
Nuclear
Offshore Wind Turbine
Onshore Wind Turbine
Other Gases
Other Natural Gas
Other Waste Biomass
Petroleum Coke
Petroleum Liquids
Solar Photovoltaic
Solar Thermal with Energy Storage
Solar Thermal without Energy Storage
Wood/Wood Waste Biomass
Prime Mover CodeDescription
BAEnergy Storage, Battery
CEEnergy Storage, Compressed Air
CPEnergy Storage, Concentrated Solar Power
FWEnergy Storage, Flywheel
PSEnergy Storage, Reversible Hydraulic Turbine (Pumped Storage)
ESEnergy Storage, Other (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
STSteam Turbine, including nuclear, geothermal and solar steam (does not include combined cycle)
GTCombustion (Gas) Turbine (does not include the combustion turbine part of a combined cycle; see code CT, below)
ICInternal Combustion Engine (diesel, piston, reciprocating)
CACombined Cycle Steam Part
CTCombined Cycle Combustion Turbine Part
CSCombined Cycle Single Shaft (combustion turbine and steam turbine share a single generator)
CCCombined Cycle Total Unit (use only for plants/generators that are in planning stage, for which specific generator details cannot be provided)
HAHydrokinetic, Axial Flow Turbine
HBHydrokinetic, Wave Buoy
HKHydrokinetic, Other (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
HYHydroelectric Turbine (includes turbines associated with delivery of water by pipeline)
BTTurbines Used in a Binary Cycle (including those used for geothermal applications)
PVPhotovoltaic
WTWind Turbine, Onshore
WSWind Turbine, Offshore
FCFuel Cell
OTOther (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
Fuel TypeEnergy Source CodeEnergy Source Description
Fossil Fuels
CoalANTAnthracite Coal
BITBituminous Coal
LIGLignite Coal
SGCCoal-Derived Synthesis Gas
SUBSubbituminous Coal
WCWaste/Other Coal (incl. anthracite culm, bituminous gob, fine coal, lignite waste, waste coal)
RCRefined Coal
Petroleum ProductsDFODistillate Fuel Oil (including diesel, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 fuel oils)
JFJet Fuel
KERKerosene
PCPetroleum Coke
PGGaseous Propane
RFOResidual Fuel Oil (incl. Nos. 5 & 6 fuel oils, and bunker C fuel oil)
SGPSynthesis Gas from Petroleum Coke
WOWaste/Other Oil (including crude oil, liquid butane, liquid propane, naphtha, oil waste, re-refined motor oil, sludge oil, tar oil, or other petroleum-based liquid wastes)
Natural Gas and Other GasesBFGBlast Furnace Gas
NGNatural Gas
OGOther Gas (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
Renewable Fuels
Solid Renewable FuelsABAgricultural By-Products
MSWMunicipal Solid Waste
OBSOther Biomass Solids (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
WDSWood/Wood Waste Solids (incl. paper pellets, railroad ties, utility poles, wood chips, bark, and wood waste solids)
Liquid Renewable (Biomass) FuelsOBLOther Biomass Liquids (specify in SCHEDULE 7)
SLWSludge Waste
BLQBlack Liquor
WDLWood Waste Liquids excluding Black Liquor (including red liquor, sludge wood, spent sulfite liquor, and other wood-based liquids)
Gaseous Renewable (Biomass) FuelsLFGLandfill Gas
OBGOther Biomass Gas (including digester gas, methane, and other biomass gases; specify in SCHEDULE 7)
All Other Renewable FuelsSUNSolar
WNDWind
GEOGeothermal
WATWater at a Conventional Hydroelectric Turbine, and water used in Wave Buoy Hydrokinetic Technology, Current Hydrokinetic Technology, and Tidal Hydrokinetic Technology
All Other Fuels
All Other Energy SourcesWATPumping Energy for Reversible (Pumped Storage) Hydroelectric Turbine
NUCNuclear (including Uranium, Plutonium, and Thorium)
PURPurchased Steam
WHWaste heat not directly attributed to a fuel source (WH should only be reported when the fuel source is undetermined, and for combined cycle steam turbines that do not have supplemental firing.)
TDFTire-derived Fuels
MWHElectricity used for energy storage
OTHSpecify in SCHEDULE 7
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