EIA-860M Operator Pipeline & Retirement Reports

Find US power operators with planned generator additions and scheduled retirements, grouped into clear capacity reports. Choose states and technologies, then export operator totals and the supporting plant and generator records from the monthly EIA-860M inventory.

For energy equipment and service account research, utility portfolio analysis and monthly operator monitoring. Every report links to the official source; no EIA API key is needed.

Quick start

1. Choose Project states and Technologies, or try the prefilled Arizona + Solar example.
2. Keep Maximum operator reports at five and start the run. The standard window is 24 months after the source data month.
3. Open Operator summary for totals or Generator evidence for the supporting records. For a spreadsheet, click Export, select the view and choose CSV.

{
  "states": ["AZ"],
  "technologies": ["Solar"],
  "maxResults": 5
}

Clear states for all main US states; clear technologies for any technology. Selecting Puerto Rico automatically includes its source worksheets. Results follow EIA entity-ID order, not a ranking of commercial opportunities.

Everyday inputs

Input	What to choose
Project states (states)	Generator locations, such as Arizona (AZ). These are not operator headquarters.
Operator activity (activityFilter)	Any planned activity, has additions, has retirements, or has both.
Technologies (technologies)	Suggested choices or your own technology phrases, such as Solar or Batteries.
Operator names (entityQueries)	Optional name fragments, such as Entergy. Leave empty to discover operators.
Maximum operator reports (maxResults)	1–1,000 complete reports; default five. Each report may include several generators.

Filters combine: Arizona + Solar means solar generators in Arizona. Multiple entries within one field match any listed value. Name and technology searches ignore letter case. The activity choice selects qualifying operators while retaining all evidence matching your other filters.

The form's starter is Arizona + Solar. Sending empty JSON through the API preserves the broader defaults: all main US states, any technology/activity, five reports.

What the results mean

Operator summary shows planned generator counts, addition MW, scheduled retirement counts/MW, project states, data month and planning-window end. All headline capacity uses nameplate MW, within your selected scope.

This starter returned the following first five reports from 17 matches in the August 2026 inventory, checked October 21, 2026:

Operator	Planned additions (MW)	Scheduled retirements (MW)
Arizona Public Service Co	168	0
Invenergy Services LLC	475	0
174 Power Global Corp.	300	0
302PN 8me LLC	400	0
EDF Renewables Development, Inc.	250	0

A compact excerpt of the first genuine report:

{
  "entityId": "803",
  "entityName": "Arizona Public Service Co",
  "states": ["AZ"],
  "reportingMonth": "2026-08",
  "horizonEndMonth": "2028-08",
  "plannedAdditionCount": 1,
  "plannedAdditionCapacityMw": 168,
  "plannedRetirementCount": 0,
  "plannedRetirementCapacityMw": 0,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/xls/august_generator2026.xlsx"
}

Generator evidence expands each report into plant/generator rows: exact IDs, state, activity, technology, nameplate MW, scheduled month or year, published status, worksheet and source row. For example, the first report's Ironwood Solar generator I168M has 168 MW and a scheduled period of 2026-11 in that release.

To download a spreadsheet, click Export above the run output. In the dialog, explicitly select Operator summary (one row per report) or Generator evidence (one row per generator), choose CSV, then Download. Select the view in that dialog even if you already opened its table. State lists appear in indexed CSV columns such as states/0.

Five reports can contain more than five generator rows; expanded rows are not additional billable results. Complete operator reports (JSON) retains all evidence, quality flags and provenance. Future releases can change these example values.

The run message explains no matches, unchanged comparisons and result limits. Run summary and continuation shows coverage. A cap limits delivered reports, not the number of available matches; do not treat a five-report sample as the complete market.

Uses and integrations

• Research operator portfolios before validating equipment or service needs independently.
• Compare planned additions and power plant retirement data by state and technology.
• Feed monthly operator changes into analyst review workflows.
• Use CSV in Excel, Google Sheets or BI tools; use JSON/API in Make, n8n, Zapier and data pipelines.
• Give AI agents source-linked generator evidence for cited summaries.

Pricing

$0.02 per run start plus $0.02 per complete operator report. Platform usage is included. Five reports cost $0.12 at the base rate. Paid-plan discounts reduce the report price to $0.018 (Bronze), $0.016 (Silver) or $0.014 (Gold and higher). Check the Pricing tab for your effective price before running.

The start fee applies even when nothing matches, nothing changed, or a source failure prevents output after startup. Supporting generator rows, the run summary and skipped unchanged reports are not extra result events. Delivered unchanged snapshots count when changes-only is off. The $0.04 minimum spending limit is a budget requirement, not a minimum amount billed. Run after monthly publication rather than repeatedly polling an unchanged release.

Source and limitations

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, reused under EIA's public-domain policy. Calculations by The Scrape Lab; this independent Actor is not endorsed by EIA.

The inventory is monthly, preliminary and subject to publication lag and correction. It is not real-time construction verification, a complete operating-plant database or an early-stage interconnection queue. EIA reporting covers plants with at least 1 MW combined nameplate capacity; individual generators can be smaller.

EIA entity IDs identify reporting organizations, not verified owners, developers or parent companies. Schedules are reported plans. Missing values remain null; unknown capacity is excluded from MW sums and flagged. Year-only schedules retain year precision; still-pending earlier dates remain included and flagged. Addition minus retirement MW is arithmetic, not a shortage forecast or replacement contract.

Optional filters and saved comparisons

Optional filters: horizonMonths sets a 1–60-month window (default 24); minimumCapacityMw sets a per-generator minimum (default 0); entityIds selects exact EIA ID strings; includePuertoRico adds PR to an otherwise unrestricted search.

For a monthly comparison, open Saved comparisons, enter a lowercase name such as arizona-solar, and enable changes-only if desired. The first delivered observation is a baseline. Reuse the same name and filters, with one run at a time; unchanged repeats can correctly return zero reports. Complete the initial scope first: capped runs can leave operators without baselines.

Comparisons describe the selected scope. A disappearing operator produces no removal alert, and a project leaving scope is not proof of cancellation. Invalid history stops the run instead of silently resetting. Let the Actor create a new comparison name; a manually pre-created store can be inaccessible. This Actor creates no automatic schedules.

API example and reference

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("thescrapelab/eia-power-operator-pipeline-intelligence").call(
    run_input={"states": ["AZ"], "technologies": ["Solar"], "maxResults": 5},
    memory_mbytes=1024,
    timeout_secs=300,
    max_total_charge_usd=0.15,
)
if run is None or run["status"] != "SUCCEEDED":
    raise RuntimeError("Inspect the Actor run before consuming partial output")
for report in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(report["entityName"], report["plannedAdditionCapacityMw"])

Additional API field	Meaning
watchlistName	Optional 1–40 lowercase letters/digits/hyphens; empty means no comparison.
changesOnly	Default false; requires a comparison name when true.
afterEntityId	Continue from the run summary with identical filters and both source guards.
expectedReportingMonth	Optional YYYY-MM guard; required for continuation.
expectedSourceSha256	Optional lowercase workbook digest guard; required for continuation.

Lists default to empty. Omit optional fields to use defaults; explicit null fields are rejected. If coverage is incomplete, copy the complete continuation object from the run summary into the next input with identical filters. A changed month or digest stops continuation; restart collection against the new release.

For support, provide the run URL, public entity/plant ID, data month and expected result through the Actor's support channel. Remove credentials from attachments.