core_eia861__yearly_short_form

package: pudl

Annual time series of data from the short form (EIA-861S).

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 861 -- Annual Electric Power Industry Report

Primary key:

utility_id_eia, state, report_date, balancing_authority_code_eia

Usage Warnings

  • Some years are missing from the data record.

Additional Details

The data started being reported in 2012. However, the 2019 data is not available. They are expected to submit the completed Form EIA-861S to EIA by April 30th, following the end of the prior calendar year. Utilities report on Form EIA-861S if they:

  • Report less than 200,000 megawatthours on the last previous Form EIA-861.

  • Provide only bundled service (generation and distribution).

  • Are not needed to ensure acceptable quality of statistical estimates.

  • Are not part of the aggregate TVA or WPPI.

  • Do not report on Form EIA-861M.

Columns
report_date

Date reported.

utility_id_eia

The EIA Utility Identification number.

utility_name_eia

The name of the utility.

entity_type

Entity type of principal owner.

state

Two letter US state abbreviation.

balancing_authority_code_eia

EIA short code identifying a balancing authority. May include Canadian and Mexican BAs.

sales_revenue

Revenue from electricity sold.

sales_mwh

Quantity of electricity sold in MWh.

customers

Number of customers.

has_net_metering

Whether the plant has a net metering agreement in effect during the reporting year. (Only displayed for facilities that report the sun or wind as an energy source). This field was only reported up until 2015

has_demand_side_management

Whether there were strategies or measures used to control electricity demand by customers

has_time_responsive_programs

Whether the respondent operates any time-based rate programs (e.g., real-time pricing, critical peak pricing, variable peak pricing and time-of-use rates administered through a tariff).

has_green_pricing

Whether a green pricing program was associated with this utility during the reporting year.

data_maturity

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.