Electricitymap-contrib: Data for Oregon

[corradio]

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=OR

According to api.watttime.org, that would be PacifiCorp West:

Real-time generation + imports available here (but no mix):
https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/

[jarek]

Note that around 60% of population of Oregon is around Portland, which is not actually covered by PacifiCorp.

Map at http://www.pacificorp.com/about/eim.html might be useful: http://www.pacificorp.com/content/dam/pacificorp/image/About_Us/EIM/EIM-map-PacifiCorp-417x523.jpg

See also https://www.westerneim.com/Pages/About/default.aspx, https://www.wecc.biz/Pages/home.aspx

[brunolajoie]

Monthly data production estimates can be found on EIA for all past months, broken down by fuel type, if we want to compute static estimates with monthly granularity (example with coal here)

[systemcatch]

Found a big spreadsheet showing monthly generation by type by state at https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/

Direct link to the file - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/generation_monthly.xlsx

It goes back to 2001!

[brunolajoie]

Awesome! That will probably avoids a XML parser

[kepiej]

Found a big spreadsheet showing monthly generation by type by state at https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/

Direct link to the file - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/generation_monthly.xlsx

It goes back to 2001!

Hi! I'm not sure if you're aware, but it seems that the same data is available through a freely available API:
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=3

For example, monthly net generation by wind for Oregon is available here:
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=14&sdid=ELEC.GEN.WND-OR-99.M
and natural gas:
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=9&sdid=ELEC.GEN.NG-OR-99.M
etc.

Furthermore, the same API also provides hourly net generation data (but no breakdown in mix):
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=2122629
For example, for PacifiCorp West (PACW):
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=2122629&sdid=EBA.PACW-ALL.NG.H

I hope this can help in adding even more states to the map! :)

[systemcatch]

Hey @kepiej thanks for digging that up, I'm aware of that API but didn't realize that data was also available on there. I actually built a small python package for extracting data from that API a while back (https://github.com/systemcatch/eiapy)

[corradio]

Closing due to inactivity. Thank you all for your inputs!