🔔 EIA-861 Advanced Metering (AMR / AMI / Standard)

Structured advanced-meter technology adoption records from the U.S. EIA Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, read directly from the official current-year ZIP on www.eia.gov. One record per utility-state row of Advanced_Meters_<year>.xlsx, carried source-native and verbatim.

Output is one metering_adoption_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one metering adoption record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per metering adoption 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.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run doejvCOAfOG9SOsTd on build 0.1.5 (2026-09-19), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

data_year	utility_number	utility_name	ownership	state	ba_code
2024	34	City of Abbeville - (SC)	Municipal	SC	DUK
2024	162	Aiken Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	SC	SC
2024	1170	Bamberg Board of Public Works	Municipal	SC	SC
2024	1613	Berkeley Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	SC	SC
2024	1763	Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC)	Cooperative	SC	SC
2024	1890	Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC)	Cooperative	SC	DUK
2024	2212	Broad River Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	SC	DUK
2024	2890	City of Camden	Municipal	SC	CPLE

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 46 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from f8612024. billable=46

✅ 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):

• data_year (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• utility_number (string/null) — e.g. 34
• utility_name (string/null) — e.g. City of Abbeville - (SC)
• ownership (string/null) — e.g. Municipal
• short_form (string/null) — e.g. Y
• state (string/null) — e.g. SC
• ba_code (string/null) — e.g. DUK
• amr_residential (string/null) — e.g. 3061
• amr_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 473
• amr_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• amr_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• amr_total (string/null) — e.g. 3534
• ami_residential (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• ami_total (string/null) — e.g. 0
• han_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• total_meters_residential (string/null) — e.g. 3061
• total_meters_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 473
• total_meters_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• total_meters_transportation (string/null) — e.g. 0
• total_meters_total (string/null) — e.g. 3534
• energy_served_ami_mwh_residential (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• energy_served_ami_mwh_total (string/null) — e.g. 0
• daily_digital_access_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• record_type (string/null) — e.g. metering_adoption_record
• sheet (string/null) — e.g. states
• is_territory (string/null) — e.g. N
• meter_classes (string/null) — e.g. AMR, AMI, Home Area Network, Standard (non AMR/AMI), Total
• net_metering_note (string/null) — e.g. meter TECHNOLOGY adoption (AMR/AMI/standard meter counts a utility operates) — N
• release_year (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• release_file (string/null) — e.g. f8612024.zip
• release_note (string/null) — e.g. EIA-861 is an ANNUAL dataset; each year's file replaces (does not append to) the
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. eia861-advmtr:2024:34:SC:f218c0c71e55
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/zip/f8612024.zip
• source (string/null) — e.g. eia861-advanced-metering
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. f8612024
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T04:51:41Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Energy Information Administration — Form EIA-861 (https://www.eia.gov/elect
• terminal (string/null) — null in every sample row
• scope (string/null) — null in every sample row
• note (string/null) — null in every sample row
• reported_total (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• raw_seen (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• duplicates (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• unique_found (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• delivered (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row

✅ What you get

• data_year (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• utility_number (string/null) — e.g. 34
• utility_name (string/null) — e.g. City of Abbeville - (SC)
• ownership (string/null) — e.g. Municipal
• short_form (string/null) — e.g. Y
• state (string/null) — e.g. SC
• ba_code (string/null) — e.g. DUK
• amr_residential (string/null) — e.g. 3061
• amr_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 473
• amr_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• amr_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• amr_total (string/null) — e.g. 3534
• ami_residential (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• ami_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• ami_total (string/null) — e.g. 0
• han_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• han_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• standard_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• total_meters_residential (string/null) — e.g. 3061
• total_meters_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 473
• total_meters_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• total_meters_transportation (string/null) — e.g. 0
• total_meters_total (string/null) — e.g. 3534
• energy_served_ami_mwh_residential (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_commercial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_industrial (string/null) — e.g. 0
• energy_served_ami_mwh_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• energy_served_ami_mwh_total (string/null) — e.g. 0
• daily_digital_access_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• daily_digital_access_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_residential (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_commercial (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_industrial (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_transportation (string/null) — e.g. .
• direct_load_control_total (string/null) — e.g. .
• record_type (string/null) — e.g. metering_adoption_record
• sheet (string/null) — e.g. states
• is_territory (string/null) — e.g. N
• meter_classes (string/null) — e.g. AMR, AMI, Home Area Network, Standard (non AMR/AMI), Total
• net_metering_note (string/null) — e.g. meter TECHNOLOGY adoption (AMR/AMI/standard meter counts a utility operates) — N
• release_year (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• release_file (string/null) — e.g. f8612024.zip
• release_note (string/null) — e.g. EIA-861 is an ANNUAL dataset; each year's file replaces (does not append to) the
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. eia861-advmtr:2024:34:SC:f218c0c71e55
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/zip/f8612024.zip
• source (string/null) — e.g. eia861-advanced-metering
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. f8612024
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T04:27:18Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 2024
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Energy Information Administration — Form EIA-861 (https://www.eia.gov/elect
• terminal (string/null) — null in every sample row
• scope (string/null) — null in every sample row
• note (string/null) — null in every sample row
• reported_total (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• raw_seen (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• duplicates (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• unique_found (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• delivered (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row

What you get

One metering_adoption_record per utility-state row, carried verbatim:

• utility characteristics: data_year, utility_number, utility_name, ownership, short_form, state, ba_code
• per-sector counts (residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, total) for every meter class: AMR (Automated Meter Reading) amr_*, AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) ami_*, Home Area Network han_*, Standard (non AMR/AMI) standard_*, and Total Meters total_meters_*
• technology dimensions: AMI energy served (MWh) energy_served_ami_mwh_*, customers with daily digital access daily_digital_access_*, customers with direct load control direct_load_control_*
• is_territory, meter_classes, net_metering_note, release_year, release_file, release_note, source_url

EIA's . not-applicable marker is carried exactly as published — never coerced to 0.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "maxRecords": 50
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 46 × $0.02 metering_adoption_record = $0.94 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.12 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.02).

3. A full-size run

{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "maxRecords": 3000
}

Up to 3000 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) — about $60.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 3000 × $0.02) if the source has that many.

4. A filtered run

{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "maxRecords": 50,
  "fieldMatch": {
    "utility_name": "City of Abbeville - (SC)"
  }
}

Keeps only rows whose utility_name contains City of Abbeville - (SC) (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 — 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 — this narrows what you receive and pay for, not what the source serves.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run doejvCOAfOG9SOsTd, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "data_year": "2024",
  "utility_number": "34",
  "utility_name": "City of Abbeville - (SC)",
  "ownership": "Municipal",
  "short_form": "Y",
  "state": "SC",
  "ba_code": "DUK",
  "amr_residential": "3061",
  "amr_commercial": "473",
  "amr_industrial": "0",
  "amr_transportation": ".",
  "amr_total": "3534",
  "ami_residential": "0",
  "ami_commercial": "0",
  "ami_industrial": "0",
  "ami_transportation": ".",
  "ami_total": "0",
  "han_residential": ".",
  "han_commercial": ".",
  "han_industrial": ".",
  "han_transportation": ".",
  "han_total": ".",
  "standard_residential": ".",
  "standard_commercial": ".",
  "standard_industrial": ".",
  "standard_transportation": ".",
  "standard_total": ".",
  "total_meters_residential": "3061",
  "total_meters_commercial": "473",
  "total_meters_industrial": "0",
  "total_meters_transportation": "0",
  "total_meters_total": "3534",
  "energy_served_ami_mwh_residential": "0",
  "energy_served_ami_mwh_commercial": "0",
  "energy_served_ami_mwh_industrial": "0",
  "energy_served_ami_mwh_transportation": ".",
  "energy_served_ami_mwh_total": "0",
  "daily_digital_access_residential": ".",
  "daily_digital_access_commercial": ".",
  "daily_digital_access_industrial": ".",
  "daily_digital_access_transportation": ".",
  "daily_digital_access_total": ".",
  "direct_load_control_residential": ".",
  "direct_load_control_commercial": ".",
  "direct_load_control_industrial": ".",
  "direct_load_control_transportation": ".",
  "direct_load_control_total": ".",
  "record_type": "metering_adoption_record",
  "sheet": "states",
  "is_territory": "N",
  "meter_classes": "AMR, AMI, Home Area Network, Standard (non AMR/AMI), Total",
  "net_metering_note": "meter TECHNOLOGY adoption (AMR/AMI/standard meter counts a utility operates) — NOT customer generation or net metering; for customers who generate their own power see the EIA-861 net-metering data, a separate dataset",
  "release_year": "2024",
  "release_file": "f8612024.zip",
  "release_note": "EIA-861 is an ANNUAL dataset; each year's file replaces (does not append to) the prior year",
  "record_key": "eia861-advmtr:2024:34:SC:f218c0c71e55",
  "source_url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/zip/f8612024.zip",
  "source": "eia861-advanced-metering",
  "release_date": "f8612024",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-19T04:51:41Z",
  "release_checksum": "2024",
  "license": "U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, Advanced Metering — U.S. Government work, public domain. Annual dataset; each year replaces the prior year. Acknowledgement: data from the U.S",
  "attribution": "U.S. Energy Information Administration — Form EIA-861 (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/)"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.eia.gov — endpoints: https://www.eia.gov, https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/, https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/zip/f861. 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 — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each metering adoption record is charged at the moment it is pushed (metering_adoption_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

Meter technology adoption — NOT net metering

This actor reports how many meters of each technology class a utility operates. It is not the EIA-861 net-metering dataset (customers who generate their own power). A net_metering_note states this distinction on every record: meter technology adoption ≠ customer generation.

Two-level header integrity

The sheet has a top group row (AMR / AMI / Standard / …) and a sub-header row (Residential / Commercial / Industrial / Transportation / Total). A schema canary over both rows fails loud if the meter-class groups or the utility fields drift — the actor refuses to bill on a changed layout.

Annual replacement

EIA-861 is an annual dataset — each year's file replaces (does not append to) the prior year. Every record carries the release year and source file so a buyer always knows the vintage.

Filters

Supply at least one of states, utilityNumbers, or ownerships — the file is never emitted in full. maxRecords caps delivery (one charge per delivered record, hard cap 6000).

Robots & door

www.eia.gov/robots.txt disallows /archive/ — only the current f861<year>.zip is read, never the archive editions. No third-party content or logos; no implied endorsement.

Source & licence

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (Advanced Metering) — U.S. Government work, public domain. Acknowledgement: data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/).

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Metering adoption record (metering_adoption_record)	$0.02	$0.018	$0.016	$0.0134

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 metering adoption records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.02 = $0.18
• 25 metering adoption records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.02 = $0.52
• 3000 metering adoption records: $0.02 start + 3000 × $0.02 = $60.02

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: 46 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from f8612024. billable=46. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ 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.

❓ 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 — 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 3000). 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 — 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.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → 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 → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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