out_eia930__hourly_subregion_demand

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Hourly time series of balancing authority subregion demand with imputed demand.

Most-recent data:

2026

Processing:

Data is ready for use in analyses, but for practical reasons has not been denormalized and remains in narrow format.

Source:

EIA Form 930 -- Hourly and Daily Balancing Authority Operations Report

Primary key:

datetime_utc, balancing_authority_code_eia, balancing_authority_subregion_code_eia

Usage Warnings

  • Contains rows where missing values were imputed.

  • This table is experimental and/or a work in progress and may change in the future.

Additional Details

This table is based on core_eia930__hourly_subregion_demand, but adds imputed demand where the original data was missing or anomalous. Codes explaining why values have been imputed can be found in the core_pudl__codes_imputation_reasons table.

Columns
datetime_utc

Date and time converted to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

balancing_authority_code_eia

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

balancing_authority_subregion_code_eia

Code identifying subregions of larger balancing authorities.

demand_reported_mwh

Originally reported electricity demand, calculated by taking the net generation within the BA and subtracting the interchange with adjacent BAs.

demand_imputed_pudl_mwh

Electricity demand calculated by subtracting BA interchange from net generation, with outliers and missing values imputed in PUDL.

demand_imputed_pudl_mwh_imputation_code

Code describing why a demand value was flagged for imputation.