FACT Electric Power Generation and Transmission
Location, size, and type of electricity generation plants and transmission lines, in Europe and US.
Use
- Pull the image:
docker pull registry.git.nilu.no/fact/data/fact_power:latest
- Run this data service:
docker run -t -i --name fact_power -e MARIADB_DATABASE=FACT_power -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=devops -p 3313:3306 -d registry.git.nilu.no/fact/data/fact_power:latest
The container makes available a MariaDB instance with the full database on population FACT_power. It is reachable on port 3313 of the localhost and the root password is 'devops'.
Specifications
Table |Size (MB)|Rows (#)|
----------------+---------+--------+
eu_gen | 1.18| 4891|
eu_trans | 1.98| 9007|
geometry_columns| 0.02| 4|
spatial_ref_sys | 0.02| 0|
us_gen | 4.44| 12008|
us_trans | 79.84| 94216|
All spatial objects are converted to EPSG:4326.
Notes
Europe data:
- Power Plants: EU OPEN database of power plants, 2017, https://visitors-centre.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools/powerplants/ with data published at doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3574566
- Power Transmission Lines: ENTSO-E Transmission System Map
US data:
- Power Plants: EIA, US Energy Atlas, Power Plants
- Power Transmission Lines: EIA, US Energy Atlas, Transmission Lines
Author
Riccardo Boero - ribo@nilu.no
License
All the code and the resulting docker images in this project are subject to:
The data is released under CC BY 4.0 license because of input data licensing:
- EU power palants follows CC BY 4.0 license.
- ENTSOE data terms of use.
- EIA public domain data copyrights.
Citation
- Boero, Riccardo. 2024. “FACT Data: Geographical Boundaries.” OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/6TD3S.
Part of the Fine scAle eConomic daTa - FACT project:
- Boero, Riccardo. 2024. “Fine scAle eConomic daTa - FACT.” OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/PV4ZW.