Chart: Power Plant Map#
Interactive tile map of the physical assets in the US: technology-colored, capacity-sized plant markers with hover cards, legend toggling, and a balancing-authority selector defaulting to CAISO.
Chart#
Sources: EIA-860M monthly generator inventory (xlsx)
Description#
Interactive map of the operating power plants from the EIA-860M monthly inventory. Each marker is one plant-technology pair, sized by nameplate capacity and colored by technology group (natural gas, hydro, wind, solar, battery, nuclear, geothermal, coal, other). Hovering a marker shows the plant name, operator, capacity, unit count, county/state, and balancing authority.
The balancing-authority selector filters the fleet and reframes the view;
it defaults to CAISO (CISO). Technology groups can be toggled on and off
via the legend.
Formulas Used: N/A.
Data Cleaning Information: Generator rows are aggregated to one marker per plant-technology pair (capacities summed, units counted); they are also grouped by their EIA defined technology; generators without coordinates are dropped (none in the current edition).
Notes#
Source is the EIA-860M “Operating” sheet - a monthly federal inventory, independent of any ISO’s data. Coordinates are EIA’s plant locations.
Capacity here is nameplate MW, not net qualifying capacity; the CAISO fleet totals about 100 GW nameplate across roughly 2,840 generators.
This is the physical-fleet reference layer for the weather basis-risk work: plant locations against the six weather stations.
Chart Specs#
Chart Name |
Power Plant Map |
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Chart ID |
caiso_plant_map |
Topic Tags |
Map, Power Plants, Grid Context |
Data Series Start Date |
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Data Frequency |
Monthly snapshot (EIA-860M) |
Observation Period |
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Lag in Data Release |
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Data Release Timing |
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Seasonal Adjustment |
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Units |
MW |
HTML Chart |
Dataframe Manifest#
Dataframe Name |
EIA-860M Generators |
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Dataframe ID |
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Data Sources |
EIA-860M monthly generator inventory (xlsx) |
Data Providers |
U.S. Energy Information Administration |
Links to Providers |
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Topic Tags |
Reference, Power Plants, Map |
Type of Data Access |
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How is data pulled? |
src/pulls/pull_eia860m_generators.py via the EIA bulk download |
Data available up to (min) |
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Data available up to (max) |
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Dataframe Path |
data\opensource\eia860m_generators.parquet |
Linked Charts:
Pipeline Manifest#
Pipeline Name |
Project-Lab-Energy-Weather-Natgas-Quanto-CAISO |
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Pipeline ID |
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Lead Pipeline Developer |
Brian Nguyen |
Contributors |
Brian Nguyen, Claire Kim |
Git Repo URL |
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Pipeline Web Page |
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Date of Last Code Update |
2026-08-27 10:08:05 |
OS Compatibility |
Windows, Linux, macOS |
Linked Dataframes |
CAISO:caiso_lmp_day_ahead_hourly |
Build Commands:
doit