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    • Electricity Data: Average Cost of Fossil Fuels For Electricity Generation (per Btu) Application Programming Interface (API)

    Metadata Updated: July 6, 2021

    This API provides data on the average cost of fossil fuels per Btu. Data organized by fuel type, i.e., coal, bituminous coal, subbituminous coal, lignite coal, petroleum liquids, petroleum coke, and natural gas. Also by sector, i.e., electric power, electric utility, independent power producers, commercial, and industrial. Annual, quarterly, and monthly data available. Based on Form EIA-423 and Form EIA-923 data. 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)

    Collection

    This dataset is part of the following collection:

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-423
    http://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.cfm?id=electricity
    http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-923

    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-019-54044567678
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2015-07-27
    Category energy
    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
    Collection Package Id e4e47452-bcf0-449b-8a94-902b7e6205aa
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 4877a340-85fd-45f6-8175-8f380d65de00
    Harvest Source Id f77dd4c2-ab3d-4bc7-8b3f-2aaa2e411d70
    Harvest Source Title Energy JSON
    Homepage URL http://www.eia.gov/electricity/
    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/#eia-423, http://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.cfm?id=electricity, http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-923
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 185739cdf8461ed0afcb627275ac67584ab31ed9
    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 2008/2015

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