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Aggregate data to fuel types using subplant-level rather than plant-level data #392

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grgmiller opened this issue Oct 21, 2024 · 0 comments
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If a plant has multiple generators that burn multiple fuels, all of the generation and emissions for this plant are assigned the plant primary fuel type when aggregating to the fleet level or other higher level aggregations.

For example, in 2022, the Meramec plant overall burned more natural gas than coal, although only units 1 and 2 burned natural gas, while units 3 and 4 burned coal. However, since this plant was categorized as natural gas, all of the coal emissions also got lumped in with natural gas, which can throw off the fleet totals.

Going forward, we should probably try and publish subplant-level data (at least annually) as well as perform all fleet-level aggregations based on subplant-level data, rather than aggregating the already aggregated plant-level data.

@grgmiller grgmiller added data repair Interpolating or extrapolating data that we don't actually have data outputs New output files or data fields that should be added emissions Accuracy/completeness of emission mass data regional aggregation Improve spatial granularity of data generation data accuracy/completeness of generation data labels Oct 21, 2024
@grgmiller grgmiller added this to the 2023 Data Release milestone Oct 21, 2024
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