Revised monthly energy generation estimates for 1,500 hydroelectric power plants in the United States.

ABSTRACT: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) conducts a regular survey (form EIA-923) to collect annual and monthly net generation for more than ten thousand U.S. power plants. Approximately 90% of the ~1,500 hydroelectric plants included in this data release are surveyed at annual resolution only and thus lack actual observations of monthly generation. For each of these plants, EIA imputes monthly generation values using the combined monthly generating pattern of other hydropower plants within the corresponding census division. The imputation method neglects local hydrology and reservoir operations, rendering the monthly data unsuitable for various research applications. Here we present an alternative approach to disaggregate each unobserved plant's reported annual generation using pr

SUBMITTER: Turner SWD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636176 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature