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    • Electricity Data and Statistics Application Programming Interface (API)

    Metadata Updated: July 6, 2021

    Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on electricity generation, consumption, retail sales, price, revenue from retail sales, useful thermal output, fossil fuel stocks, fossil fuel receipts, and quality of fossil fuel. Data organized by fuel type, i.e., coal petroleum, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and wood. Also, data organized by sector, i.e., electric power, electric utility, independent power producers, commercial, and industrial. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

    Access & Use Information

    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: Other (Public Domain)

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www.eia.gov/survey/#electricity

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2021
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Energy JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2021
    Publisher U.S. Energy Information Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOE-019-3299699499
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2014-02-27T16:27:23.324514
    Category energy
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Energy Infrastructure","Energy Resources","Energy Demand","Energy Supply"
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    Bureau Code 019:20
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 1c5cd20a-d528-4291-b8f4-b5c74b8fac0e
    Harvest Source Id f77dd4c2-ab3d-4bc7-8b3f-2aaa2e411d70
    Harvest Source Title Energy JSON
    Homepage URL http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0
    License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/other-pd
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 019:022
    Related Documents http://www.eia.gov/survey/#electricity
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 61d221535e240d51457a39f2292d2d310107b84f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 1940/2014

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