EIA-860M Monthly Generator Inventory
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EIA-860M Monthly Generator Inventory
One structured generator_record per generating unit in EIA's monthly Form EIA-860M inventory β entity, plant, state, balancing authority, technology, energy source, prime mover, nameplate and net summer/winter capacity.
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π EIA-860M Monthly Generator Inventory
One structured generator_record per generating unit in EIA's monthly Form EIA-860M inventory β entity, plant, state, balancing authority, technology, energy source, prime mover, nameplate and net summer/winter capacity, operating/retirement dates, and status β carried verbatim from the official monthly workbook.
Differentiation: the current, filterable, billing-honest slice of EIA-860M as structured records β not a re-hosted spreadsheet. Pick an inventory (Operating / Planned / Retired / Canceled), optionally add Puerto Rico, filter by state / balancing authority / energy source / technology / entity, and pay per delivered generator. A per-release schema canary refuses to bill if EIA changes the header.
Output is one generator_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one generator record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per generator record). Source: www.eia.gov.
No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.
π Sample Output
Real rows from run VNhduEPv59pYz4TfR on build 0.1.5 (2026-09-19), the same input as the Quick start below β every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):
| entity_name | plant_name | county | sector | technology | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Petroleum Liquids | (SB) Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Petroleum Liquids | (OP) Operating |
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Petroleum Liquids | (OP) Operating |
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Petroleum Liquids | (OP) Operating |
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Onshore Wind Turbine | (OS) Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next cale |
| Sand Point Generating, LLC | Sand Point | Aleutians East | Electric Utility | Onshore Wind Turbine | (OS) Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next cale |
| Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. | Annex Creek | Juneau | Electric Utility | Conventional Hydroelectric | (OP) Operating |
| Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. | Annex Creek | Juneau | Electric Utility | Conventional Hydroelectric | (OP) Operating |
The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from july_generator2026. billable=50
β What you get
Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):
entity_id(string/null) β e.g.63560entity_name(string/null) β e.g.Sand Point Generating, LLCplant_id(string/null) β e.g.1plant_name(string/null) β e.g.Sand Pointplant_state(string/null) β e.g.AKcounty(string/null) β e.g.Aleutians Eastbalancing_authority_code(string/null) β null in every sample rowsector(string/null) β e.g.Electric Utilitygenerator_id(string/null) β e.g.1unit_code(string/null) β null in every sample rownameplate_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.9net_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.4net_winter_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.4technology(string/null) β e.g.Petroleum Liquidsenergy_source_code(string/null) β e.g.DFOprime_mover_code(string/null) β e.g.ICoperating_month(string/null) β e.g.12operating_year(string/null) β e.g.2000planned_retirement_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_retirement_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowstatus(string/null) β e.g.(SB) Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally usednameplate_energy_capacity_mwh(string/null) β null in every sample rowdc_net_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_of_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_of_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_repower_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_repower_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowother_modification_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowother_modification_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowlatitude(string/null) β e.g.55.339722longitude(string/null) β e.g.-160.4972record_type(string/null) β e.g.generator_recordstatus_category(string/null) β e.g.Operatingrecord_key(string/null) β e.g.1:1:None:Operatingsource_url(string/null) β e.g.https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/source(string/null) β e.g.eia-860m-monthly-generator-inventoryrelease_date(string/null) β e.g.july_generator2026observed_at(string/null) β e.g.2026-09-19T00:23:38Zrelease_checksum(string/null) β e.g.july_generator2026license(string/null) β e.g.U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-860M β U.S. Government woattribution(string/null) β e.g.U.S. Energy Information Administration β Form EIA-860M (https://www.eia.gov/elecplanned_operation_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_operation_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowretirement_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowretirement_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowterminal(string/null) β null in every sample rowscope(string/null) β null in every sample rownote(string/null) β null in every sample rowreported_total(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowraw_seen(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowduplicates(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowunique_found(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowdelivered(string/integer/null) β null in every sample row
β What you get
entity_id(string/null) β e.g.63560entity_name(string/null) β e.g.Sand Point Generating, LLCplant_id(string/null) β e.g.1plant_name(string/null) β e.g.Sand Pointplant_state(string/null) β e.g.AKcounty(string/null) β e.g.Aleutians Eastbalancing_authority_code(string/null) β null in every sample rowsector(string/null) β e.g.Electric Utilitygenerator_id(string/null) β e.g.1unit_code(string/null) β null in every sample rownameplate_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.9net_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.4net_winter_capacity_mw(string/null) β e.g.0.4technology(string/null) β e.g.Petroleum Liquidsenergy_source_code(string/null) β e.g.DFOprime_mover_code(string/null) β e.g.ICoperating_month(string/null) β e.g.12operating_year(string/null) β e.g.2000planned_retirement_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_retirement_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowstatus(string/null) β e.g.(SB) Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally usednameplate_energy_capacity_mwh(string/null) β null in every sample rowdc_net_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_derate_of_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_uprate_of_summer_capacity_mw(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_repower_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_repower_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowother_modification_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowother_modification_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowlatitude(string/null) β e.g.55.339722longitude(string/null) β e.g.-160.4972record_type(string/null) β e.g.generator_recordstatus_category(string/null) β e.g.Operatingrecord_key(string/null) β e.g.1:1:None:Operatingsource_url(string/null) β e.g.https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/source(string/null) β e.g.eia-860m-monthly-generator-inventoryrelease_date(string/null) β e.g.july_generator2026observed_at(string/null) β e.g.2026-09-18T23:33:39Zrelease_checksum(string/null) β e.g.july_generator2026license(string/null) β e.g.U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-860M β U.S. Government woattribution(string/null) β e.g.U.S. Energy Information Administration β Form EIA-860M (https://www.eia.gov/elecplanned_operation_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowplanned_operation_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowretirement_month(string/null) β null in every sample rowretirement_year(string/null) β null in every sample rowterminal(string/null) β null in every sample rowscope(string/null) β null in every sample rownote(string/null) β null in every sample rowreported_total(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowraw_seen(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowduplicates(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowunique_found(string/integer/null) β null in every sample rowdelivered(string/integer/null) β null in every sample row
Fields & exclusions
status / fuel / capacity fields are carried verbatim. The "Google Map" and "Bing Map" columns (and
their third-party logos) are excluded and never emitted. A composite record_key
(plant Γ generator Γ unit Γ sheet) is the source-native id.
βοΈ Sample inputs
1. Quick start β the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)
{"statusCategory": "Operating","plantState": "AK","maxRecords": 50}
The sample run charged exactly: 2 Γ $0.02 apify-actor-start + 50 Γ $0.02 generator_record = $1.04 on the Free tier β every delivered row was billed.
2. A smaller, narrowed run
{"statusCategory": "Operating","plantState": "AK","maxRecords": 5}
Caps the run at 5 rows β about $0.12 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 Γ $0.02). statusCategory narrows what the source is asked for.
3. A full-size run
{"statusCategory": "Operating","plantState": "AK","maxRecords": 2500}
Up to 2500 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) β about $50.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 2500 Γ $0.02) if the source has that many.
4. A filtered run
{"statusCategory": "Operating","plantState": "AK","maxRecords": 50,"fieldMatch": {"entity_name": "Sand Point Generating, LLC"}}
Keeps only rows whose entity_name contains Sand Point Generating, LLC (a value from the sample run above), matched case-insensitively after the source is read and before the maxRecords cap, so the cap counts matches and only delivered matches are billed. searchText does the same across every column. Zero matches end the run as EMPTY_SELECTION with no row charged β if the source has moved on since that sample run, pick a value you see in your own first run. The source is still read in full β this narrows what you receive and pay for, not what the source serves.
π§Ύ JSON sample record
One real record from run VNhduEPv59pYz4TfR, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):
{"entity_id": "63560","entity_name": "Sand Point Generating, LLC","plant_id": "1","plant_name": "Sand Point","plant_state": "AK","county": "Aleutians East","balancing_authority_code": null,"sector": "Electric Utility","generator_id": "1","unit_code": null,"nameplate_capacity_mw": "0.9","net_summer_capacity_mw": "0.4","net_winter_capacity_mw": "0.4","technology": "Petroleum Liquids","energy_source_code": "DFO","prime_mover_code": "IC","operating_month": "12","operating_year": "2000","planned_retirement_month": null,"planned_retirement_year": null,"status": "(SB) Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used","nameplate_energy_capacity_mwh": null,"dc_net_capacity_mw": null,"planned_derate_year": null,"planned_derate_month": null,"planned_derate_of_summer_capacity_mw": null,"planned_uprate_year": null,"planned_uprate_month": null,"planned_uprate_of_summer_capacity_mw": null,"planned_repower_year": null,"planned_repower_month": null,"other_modification_year": null,"other_modification_month": null,"latitude": "55.339722","longitude": "-160.4972","record_type": "generator_record","status_category": "Operating","record_key": "1:1:None:Operating","source_url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/","source": "eia-860m-monthly-generator-inventory","release_date": "july_generator2026","observed_at": "2026-09-19T00:23:38Z","release_checksum": "july_generator2026","license": "U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-860M β U.S. Government work, public domain. EIA-860M monthly data are PRELIMINARY. Acknowledgement: data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Third-party materials and logos","attribution": "U.S. Energy Information Administration β Form EIA-860M (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/)"}
π§ How it works
Source. The actor reads www.eia.gov β endpoints: https://www.eia.gov, https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.
Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. robots.txt is read first and a disallowed path is never fetched. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent. Pacing: CRAWL_DELAY=0.0.
Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape β the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.
Charging. Each generator record is charged at the moment it is pushed (generator_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.
π§ How it works
Source
The official EIA-860M monthly workbook only β the current, non-archive file resolved from
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/ (xls/<month>_generator<year>.xlsx). eia.gov robots
disallows the /archive/ path, which is never fetched; only the current published file is read.
Preliminary data
EIA marks monthly EIA-860M data as PRELIMINARY; this actor states that and never overrides it β figures are the preliminary values EIA published for the release month.
Licence & acknowledgement
Form EIA-860M is a U.S. Government work (public domain). Acknowledgement: data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Third-party materials and logos are excluded.
Billing
Pay-per-event. generator_record is charged once per delivered record ($0.02), GOLD-floored
β10 / β20 / β33% volume ladder. apify-actor-start ($0.02) is platform-reserved, never charged in code.
A filter that matches nothing is a clean success β nothing billed. A drifted header fails loud β nothing
billed.
What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.
π° Pricing example
| Event | Free | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Actor Start (apify-actor-start) | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 |
Generator Record (generator_record) | $0.02 | $0.018 | $0.016 | $0.0134 |
Worked at the live Free-tier price:
- 8 generator records: $0.02 start + 8 Γ $0.02 = $0.18
- 25 generator records: $0.02 start + 25 Γ $0.02 = $0.52
- 2500 generator records: $0.02 start + 2500 Γ $0.02 = $50.02
A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 4096 MB.
Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from july_generator2026. billable=50. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.
βοΈ Legal & ToS
This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.eia.gov. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, keeps to the source's robots rules (checked on every run), identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.
β FAQ
Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.eia.gov) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.
Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event β retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.
Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 2500). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.
Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.
Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.
Q: How is this different from the other NexGen Watch actors actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.eia.gov. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices β run several on one schedule for a combined feed.
Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source (CRAWL_DELAY=0.0) and honours its robots rules; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.
π Troubleshooting
- Run FAILED with BLOCKED β the source refused the request or changed its page shape β nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
- Status says CAPPED β your cap (
maxRecords) was reached β raise it for a bigger run. - Input validation error on start β a field is outside the schema's allowed values β start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
- Run TIMED-OUT β a very wide request on a slow day β raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.
π Related Actors
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- EIA-Renewable / Storage Asset Detail β One renewable_storage_record per generator row of EIA-860's wind, solar and energy-storage worksheets β the technology-specific fields of each workshβ¦
- EIA-861 Advanced Metering (AMR / AMI / Standard) β Structured advanced-meter technology adoption records from the U.S. EIA Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, read directly from the ofβ¦
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