Published September 17, 2024 | Version v1.0.0
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GODEEEP-hydro - Historical and projected power system ready hydropower data for the United States

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Description

This dataset contains monthly and weekly hydropower generation and generation constraints (min, max, daily range) for over 1,400 hydropower plants in the conterminous United States. The dataset includes a historical period (1982-2019) and a future period (2020-2099) with 4 future warming scenarios.

For more information please refer to Bracken et al. 2024, godeeep_hydro: Historical and projected power system ready hydropower data for the United States, in prep, or refer to the Github repository https://github.com/GODEEEP/tgw-hydro

Data description

The dataset contains 10 data files with the naming convention <scenario>_<monthly/weekly>.csv where scenario can be either "historical", "rcp45cooler", "rcp45hotter", "rcp85cooler", or "rcp85hotter". "monthly" or "weekly" refers to the timestep of the data.

  • datetime - The datetime stamp of the current timestep
  • eia_id - An integer value with the EIA plant code that represents the facility
  • plant - The name of the facility according to the EIA
  • power_predicted_mwh - The total energy gnerated over the period in MWh, aka the energy target
  • n_hours - The number of hours in the period, useful for converting between power and energy
  • p_avg - Average power generation for the period
  • p_max - Maximum allowable power generation for the period
  • p_min - Minimum allowable power generation for the period
  • ador - Average daily operational range for any given day in the period
  • scenario - The name of the scenario, either "historical", "rcp45cooler", "rcp45hotter", "rcp85cooler", or "rcp85hotter"

Also included is the metadata file godeeep_hydro_plants.csv which contains metadata for each hydropower plant that is included in the dataset. Each row in this file refers to one hydropower facility. This file has the following columns:

  • eia_id - An integer value with the EIA plant code that represents the facility
  • plant - The name of the facility according to the EIA
  • mode - Either "Storage" or "RoR" indicating if the plant is primarily operated as a storage or ron-of-river facility
  • state - Two letter U.S. state name
  • lat - Latitude of the facility
  • lon - Longitude of the facility
  • nameplate_capacity - The total nameplate capacity of the facility according to the EIA
  • nerc_region - Four letter code for the NERC region of the facility
  • ba - Balacing authority of the facility
  • max_param - Value of the a_{max} parameter used to derive p_max
  • min_param - Value of the a_{min} parameter used to derive p_min
  • ador_param - Value of the a_{ador} parameter used to derive ador
  • huc2 - Two digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) which contains the facility

Funding

This research was supported by the Grid Operations, Decarbonization, Environmental and Energy Equity Platform (GODEEEP) Investment, under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

PNNL is a multi-program national laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830.

Corresponding author:

Cameron Bracken, cameron.bracken@pnnl.gov

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