core_eia861__yearly_distributed_generation_tech
Return to SearchAnnual time series of the technology used for utility or customer-owned distributed generation.
- Most-recent data:
2015
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
EIA Form 861 -- Annual Electric Power Industry Report
- Primary key:
This table has no primary key.
Usage Warnings
The original data is no longer being collected or reported in this way.
Additional Details
From 2016 on, data similar to that found in this table can be found in core_eia861__yearly_non_net_metering_customer_fuel_class.
The raw EIA861 distributed generation (DG) table (split into three normalized tables in PUDL) was renamed in 2016 to Non-Net Metering to prevent double counting. The data in the Non-Net Metering table (2016+) are split by sector, contain fuel cell information, and convert capacity reported in DC units to AC units.
Columns
Total installed (nameplate) capacity, in megawatts.
Whether the reported technology data is estimated or actual.
Date reported.
Two letter US state abbreviation.
Type of technology specific to EIA 861 distributed generation and net generation tables: ['backup', 'chp_cogen', 'combustion_turbine', 'fuel_cell', 'hydro', 'internal_combustion', 'other', 'pv', 'steam', 'storage_pv', 'storage_nonpv', 'all_storage', 'total', 'virtual_pv', 'virtual_pv_under_1mw', 'virtual_pv_over_1mw', 'wind'].
The EIA Utility Identification number.
Maturity of the source data published by EIA that is reflected in this record. EIA releases data incrementally over time, including monthly updates, annual year-to-date updates, provisional early releases of annual data, and final annual release data that is not expected to change further. Records sourced from multiple upstream EIA datasets may have no well defined data maturity. Records whose values have been inferred within PUDL will also have no data maturity.