core_eia860__assn_boiler_generator
Association table providing connections between boilers and generators.
- Most-recent data:
2024
- 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 860 -- Annual Electric Generator Report (Schedule 6, Part A)
- Primary key:
plant_id_eia, report_date, generator_id, boiler_id
Usage Warnings
Contains information from multiple raw inputs.
Additional Details
Augmented with various heuristics within PUDL.
Columns
The unique six-digit facility identification number, also called an ORISPL, assigned by the Energy Information Administration.
Date reported.
Generator ID is usually numeric, but sometimes includes letters. Make sure you treat it as a string!
Alphanumeric boiler ID.
EIA-assigned unit identification code.
Dynamically assigned PUDL unit id. WARNING: This ID is not guaranteed to be static long term as the input data and algorithm may evolve over time.
Indicates whether boiler associations with generator during the year were actual or theoretical. Only available before 2013.
Code that describes types of steam plants from EIA 860. See steam_plant_types_eia table for more details.
The source from where the unit_id_pudl is compiled. The unit_id_pudl comes directly from EIA 860, or string association (which looks at all the boilers and generators that are not associated with a unit and tries to find a matching string in the respective collection of boilers or generator), or from a unit connection (where the unit_id_eia is employed to find additional boiler generator connections).
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.