_core_eia923__yearly_byproduct_disposition
Annual time series of by-products reported by thermoelectric power plants with total steam turbine capacity of 100 megawatts or greater.
- Most-recent data:
2024
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned but not tidied/normalized. Published only temporarily and may be removed without notice.
- Source:
EIA Form 923 -- Power Plant Operations Report (Schedule 8A)
- Primary key:
plant_id_eia, report_date, byproduct_description
Usage Warnings
This table is experimental and/or a work in progress and may change in the future.
Additional Details
All by-products other than steam sales are reported in thousand tons and are rounded to whole numbers. Steam sales are reported in MMBTu.
Columns
Date reported.
The unique six-digit facility identification number, also called an ORISPL, assigned by the Energy Information Administration.
Description of combustion by-product.
Reported unit of measure for combustion byproduct. MMBTU for steam, tons for all other byproducts.
Disposed by-products in landfill, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Disposed by-products offsite, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Disposed by-products in ponds, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Sold by-products, in tons (to the nearest 100 tons) or, for Steam, MMBTU.
Stored by-products offsite, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Stored by-products onsite, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Used offsite by-products, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Used onsite by-products, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Total by-product disposal, to the nearest hundred tons or in MMBTU for steam sales.
Whether any combustion by-products were produced by a plant. 'Y' indicates no byproducts to report. The 'Y' and 'N' values do not align with expected values of reported byproducts. This column is messy and requires standardization.
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.