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 Code | Description |
|---|---|
| BA | Energy Storage, Battery |
| CE | Energy Storage, Compressed Air |
| CP | Energy Storage, Concentrated Solar Power |
| FW | Energy Storage, Flywheel |
| PS | Energy Storage, Reversible Hydraulic Turbine (Pumped Storage) |
| ES | Energy Storage, Other (specify in SCHEDULE 7) |
| ST | Steam Turbine, including nuclear, geothermal and solar steam (does not include combined cycle) |
| GT | Combustion (Gas) Turbine (does not include the combustion turbine part of a combined cycle; see code CT, below) |
| IC | Internal Combustion Engine (diesel, piston, reciprocating) |
| CA | Combined Cycle Steam Part |
| CT | Combined Cycle Combustion Turbine Part |
| CS | Combined Cycle Single Shaft (combustion turbine and steam turbine share a single generator) |
| CC | Combined Cycle Total Unit (use only for plants/generators that are in planning stage, for which specific generator details cannot be provided) |
| HA | Hydrokinetic, Axial Flow Turbine |
| HB | Hydrokinetic, Wave Buoy |
| HK | Hydrokinetic, Other (specify in SCHEDULE 7) |
| HY | Hydroelectric Turbine (includes turbines associated with delivery of water by pipeline) |
| BT | Turbines Used in a Binary Cycle (including those used for geothermal applications) |
| PV | Photovoltaic |
| WT | Wind Turbine, Onshore |
| WS | Wind Turbine, Offshore |
| FC | Fuel Cell |
| OT | Other (specify in SCHEDULE 7) |
| Fuel Type | Energy Source Code | Energy Source Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fossil Fuels | ||
| Coal | ANT | Anthracite Coal |
| BIT | Bituminous Coal | |
| LIG | Lignite Coal | |
| SGC | Coal-Derived Synthesis Gas | |
| SUB | Subbituminous Coal | |
| WC | Waste/Other Coal (incl. anthracite culm, bituminous gob, fine coal, lignite waste, waste coal) | |
| RC | Refined Coal | |
| Petroleum Products | DFO | Distillate Fuel Oil (including diesel, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 fuel oils) |
| JF | Jet Fuel | |
| KER | Kerosene | |
| PC | Petroleum Coke | |
| PG | Gaseous Propane | |
| RFO | Residual Fuel Oil (incl. Nos. 5 & 6 fuel oils, and bunker C fuel oil) | |
| SGP | Synthesis Gas from Petroleum Coke | |
| WO | Waste/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 Gases | BFG | Blast Furnace Gas |
| NG | Natural Gas | |
| OG | Other Gas (specify in SCHEDULE 7) | |
| Renewable Fuels | ||
| Solid Renewable Fuels | AB | Agricultural By-Products |
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste | |
| OBS | Other Biomass Solids (specify in SCHEDULE 7) | |
| WDS | Wood/Wood Waste Solids (incl. paper pellets, railroad ties, utility poles, wood chips, bark, and wood waste solids) | |
| Liquid Renewable (Biomass) Fuels | OBL | Other Biomass Liquids (specify in SCHEDULE 7) |
| SLW | Sludge Waste | |
| BLQ | Black Liquor | |
| WDL | Wood Waste Liquids excluding Black Liquor (including red liquor, sludge wood, spent sulfite liquor, and other wood-based liquids) | |
| Gaseous Renewable (Biomass) Fuels | LFG | Landfill Gas |
| OBG | Other Biomass Gas (including digester gas, methane, and other biomass gases; specify in SCHEDULE 7) | |
| All Other Renewable Fuels | SUN | Solar |
| WND | Wind | |
| GEO | Geothermal | |
| WAT | Water 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 Sources | WAT | Pumping Energy for Reversible (Pumped Storage) Hydroelectric Turbine |
| NUC | Nuclear (including Uranium, Plutonium, and Thorium) | |
| PUR | Purchased Steam | |
| WH | Waste 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.) | |
| TDF | Tire-derived Fuels | |
| MWH | Electricity used for energy storage | |
| OTH | Specify in SCHEDULE 7 |