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Electricity Detailed Data Files
       
  Electric power data are collected on survey instruments. Data collection is mandated by Congress to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding. The most widely used data are disseminated in reports and tables, such as the Electric Power Monthly and the Electric Power Annual. Below is the location of all the publicly available electric power data by survey.
Survey Form Description Reporting Frequency Data Contact Get The Data
All Forms State Data Tables
Annual data for electricity generation; fuel consumption; emissions; retail sales, revenue, number of customers, and retail prices; generating capacity; and financial data.
Annual Orhan Yildiz
1990-2010
EIA-411 Coordinated Bulk Power Supply Program Report
Existing and planned generating capacity and demand and proposed transmission line data by NERC region, including monthly peak hour demand, net energy for load, net internal demand, planned capacity resources, and transmission line planned additions (projections, only).
Annual Orhan Yildiz
1990-2009
EIA-412 Annual Electric Industry Financial Report
Utility data, including income statements, balance sheets, sales and purchases, and transmission lines data.
Annual   1990-2003 (survey terminated 2005)
EIA 423 and Schedule 2 of EIA-923 Monthly Utility and Nonutility Fuel Receipts and Fuel Quality Data
Monthly deliveries of fossil fuels to nonutility (unregulated) plants from 2002 – 2007, and to both utility and nonutility plants from 2008 and beyond; data include energy source; supplier; quantity delivered; Btu, sulfur, and ash content; and coal mine type (surface/underground), MSHA ID, State, and county (or country) of origin. Fuel cost data are provided for utility (regulated) plants, only. For utility plant data prior to 2008, see FERC Form 423, below.
Monthly Rebecca Peterson
2002-2011 (EIA-423 survey merged into EIA-923 Schedule 2 following 2007 data)*
FERC-423 Monthly Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Data
FERC electric utility data file, including type of fuel purchase, fuel cost, fuel type, fuel origin, fuel quantity, and fuel quality.
Monthly Rebecca Peterson
1972-2007 (survey merged into EIA-923 Schedule 2 following 2007 data)
EIA-767 Annual Steam-Electric Plant Operation and Design Data
Plant operations and equipment design information, including boilers, generators, cooling systems, flue gas desulfurizations, flue gas particulate collectors, and stacks.
Annual   1996-2005 (survey merged into EIA-923 and EIA-860)*
EIA-826 Monthly Electric Utility Sales and Revenue Data
Utility level retail sales of electricity and associated revenue by end-use sector, State, and reporting month.
Monthly Charlene Harris-Russell
1990-2011
EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report
Electric utility and non-utility generator-specific plant data, including in-service date, prime movers, generating capacity, energy sources, existing and proposed generators, county and state location, ownership, and FERC qualifying facility status.
Annual Vlad Dorjets
1990-2011
EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Data Files
Electric utility data file, including electricity sales, revenues, and customer counts, peak load, electric purchases, and demand-side management programs, green pricing and net metering programs, and distributed generation capacity.
Annual Jorge Luna-Camara and Stephen Scott 1990-2010
EIA-861 Schedule V Electric Utility Demand-Side Management Data
Electric utility data file that includes information on demand-side management efforts in the industry.
Annual Stephen Scott 1990-2000
EIA-923
(with EIA-906 and EIA-920)
Utility, Non-Utility, and Combined Heat & Power Plant Data Files
Monthly and annual data on electricity generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel stocks, and receipts at the power plant and prime mover level.
Monthly Channele Wirman
1970-2012 (EIA-906 & EIA-920 surveys merged into EIA-923 following 2007 data)*
* In 2008, EIA consolidated 6 data collection forms into 2 forms – the EIA-860 and EIA-923. This benefitted electricity generators because it reduced the number of forms they were required to submit. It benefitted EIA and taxpayers because it streamlined the collection process for better efficiency. And it benefitted everyone who uses our data because it enabled us to provide additional information about the electric power industry. The following shows the crosswalk: figure showing what electricity forms merge into the new forms

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