DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ycr6gb
title: Extracted Data From: Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)

description: This submission includes publicly available data extracted in its original form. Please reference the Related Publication listed here for source and citation information

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If you have questions about the underlying data stored here, please contact the Environmental Protection Agency using the eGRID web form (https://www.epa.gov/egrid/forms/contact-us-about-egrid) or by email (johnson.travis@epa.gov). If you have questions or recommendations related to this metadata entry and extracted data, please contact the CAFE Data Management team at: climatecafe@bu.edu

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"The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) is a comprehensive inventory of environmental attributes of electric power systems. The preeminent source of air emission data for the electric power sector, eGRID is based on available plant-specific data for all U.S. electricity generating plants that provide power to the electric grid and report data to the U.S. government. eGRID uses data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 and EPA’s Clean Air Power Sector Program Data. Emission data from EPA are carefully integrated with generation data from EIA to produce useful values like pounds of emissions per megawatt-hour of electricity generation (lb/MWh), which allows direct comparison of the environmental attributes of electricity generation. eGRID also provides aggregated data by state, U.S. total, and by three different sets of electric grid boundaries (i.e., balancing authority area, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) region, and eGRID subregion)." [Quote from https://www.epa.gov/egrid/frequent-questions-about-egrid#egrid1]
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description: Information from EPA on who uses eGRID:
"eGRID is valuable to those in the Federal Government, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, companies, and academia. It is also useful to individuals seeking environmental information about the electric power sector in the United States. eGRID is most often used to estimate indirect emissions from electricity purchases, in GHG inventories, for carbon footprinting of electricity purchases, and for estimating avoided emissions from programs and projects that reduce consumption of grid-supplied electricity. eGRID data are cited by many emission inventory and registry protocols, various emission calculation tools and applications, hundreds of academic papers, and consultants; it is used for many research applications and efforts.

Within EPA, eGRID data are used by the following applications and programs: Power Profiler, Center for Corporate Climate Leadership, Portfolio Manager, the Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator, the Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, Green Power Equivalency Calculator, Power Plants and Neighboring Communities, Green Vehicle Comparison: Your Car vs. an Electronic Vehicle, and the Waste Reduction Model (WARM)." [Quote from: https://www.epa.gov/egrid/frequent-questions-about-egrid#egrid1]
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