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    • Electricity Data: Receipts of Fossil Fuels by Electricity Plants Application Programming Interface (API)

    Metadata Updated: July 6, 2021

    This API provides data on receipts of fossil fuels by electricity plants. 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/tools/glossary/index.cfm?id=electricity
    http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-923
    http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-423

    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-019-540445675
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2015-07-27
    Rights The EIA API is offered as a free public service, although registration is required.
    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 bbcab16b-1b61-4d5c-9058-7300d231e8bc
    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/tools/glossary/index.cfm?id=electricity, http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-923, http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-423
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 333bb87a043596bc777761353ab253b448f3f4f6
    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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