core_pudl__entity_plants_pudl
Return to SearchEntity table containing static information about PUDL-assigned plant IDs.
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project
- Primary key:
plant_id_pudl
Additional Details
These IDs are manually generated each year when new FERC and EIA reporting is integrated, and any newly identified plants are added to the list with a new ID. Each ID maps to a power plant which is reported in at least one FERC or EIA data set. This table is read in from a spreadsheet stored in the PUDL repository: src/pudl/package_data/glue/pudl_id_mapping.xlsx
Columns
A manually assigned PUDL plant ID. May not be constant over time.
Plant name, chosen arbitrarily from the several possible plant names available in the plant matching process. Included for human readability only.