Analyses and data for: Planning for winter peaking power systems in the United States
Description
Please refer to the accompanying manuscript for more information about this dataset and analyses. Summary from the paper: "For this study, we merged multiple datasets at regional, balancing authority (BA), and sub-independent system operator (ISO)/regional transmission organization (RTO) levels to determine trends on the seasonality of peak demand across the contiguous United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 930 (EIA Form 930, 2021) provides hourly demand data at the regional and BA levels. There are thirteen regions for which hourly demand is calculated by aggregating data from BAs within that region (see Figure A.1 in Appendix A for a map of the EIA regions). To further disaggregate three large regions, we obtained sub-ISO/RTO demand data for the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), PJM, and the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). We refer to BAs and sub-ISO/RTO regions collectively as subregions and include those with a median demand >0.5 GW (see Figure A.1 for a map of the eighty subregions and corresponding EIA regions). At all spatial resolutions, we consider hourly demand data from 2016 to 2021. Additionally, we use spatially resolved data on the primary home heating source (United States Census Bureau, 2021) and the daily minimum and maximum temperatures for 58 weather stations (Diamond et al., 2013). The supplementary information section includes the full dataset and associated calculations."