core_ferc1__yearly_steam_plants_fuel_sched402
Annual time series of fuel cost and quantity for steam plants with a capacity of 25+ MW, internal combustion and gas-turbine plants of 10+ MW, and all nuclear plants.
- Most-recent data:
2025
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
FERC Form 1 -- Annual Report of Major Electric Utilities (Schedule 402)
- Primary key:
This table has no primary key.
Usage Warnings
The fuel_type_code_pudl is inferred from a free-form string field.
FERC data is notoriously difficult to extract cleanly, and often contains free-form strings, non-labeled total rows and lack of IDs. See Notable Irregularities for details.
Additional Details
This table is a subset of the steam plant table reported on page 402 of FERC Form 1.
Columns
Identifier indicating original FERC Form 1 source record. format: {table_name}_{report_year}_{report_prd}_{respondent_id}_{spplmnt_num}_{row_number}. Unique within FERC Form 1 DB tables which are not row-mapped.
PUDL-assigned utility ID, identifying a FERC1 utility. This is an auto-incremented ID and is not expected to be stable from year to year.
Four-digit year in which the data was reported.
Name of the plant, as reported to FERC. This is a freeform string, not guaranteed to be consistent across references to the same plant.
Simplified fuel type code used in PUDL
Reported unit of measure for fuel.
Consumption of the fuel type in physical unit. Note: this is the total quantity consumed for both electricity and, in the case of combined heat and power plants, process steam production.
Heat content of the fuel in millions of Btus per physical unit.
Average cost of fuel consumed in the report year per reported fuel unit (USD).
Average cost of fuel delivered in the report year per reported fuel unit (USD).
Average fuel cost per MMBTU of heat content in nominal USD.