core_eia__entity_plants
Return to SearchEntity table containing static information about plants, compiled from across all EIA-860 and EIA-923 data.
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
EIA -- Mix of multiple EIA Forms
- Primary key:
plant_id_eia
Usage Warnings
Data has been drawn from several EIA sources which are not always consistent with each other, and PUDL chooses the most consistent or relevant value to facilitate cross-referencing even if that means some values will differ from the raw sources. See Harvesting for details, and see Entity Resolution Methodology for a fuller conceptual overview.
Contains information from multiple raw inputs.
Additional Details
This is one of two tables where canonical values for plants are set. It contains values which are expected to remain fixed, while core_eia860__scd_plants contains those which may vary from year to year. EIA reports many attributes in many different tables across EIA-860 and EIA-923. In order to compile tidy, well-normalized database tables, PUDL collects all instances of these values and and chooses a canonical value. By default, PUDL chooses the most consistently reported value of a given attribute as long as it is at least 70% of the given instances reported. If an attribute was reported inconsistently across the original EIA tables, then it will show up as a null value. See /methodology/entity_resolution for a conceptual overview of this process. All tables downstream of this one inherit the canonical values established here.
Columns
The unique six-digit facility identification number, also called an ORISPL, assigned by the Energy Information Administration.
Plant name.
Name of the city.
County name.
Latitude of the plant's location, in degrees.
Longitude of the plant's location, in degrees.
Two letter US state abbreviation.
Physical street address.
Five digit US Zip Code.
IANA timezone name