RectifHydPlus: Forty Year Hydropower Generation Reanalysis for Conterminous United States

Overview

The files included in this page are as follows:

RectifHydPlus.zip: contains the main RectifHydPlus dataset, containing monthly generating totals for 590 plants (> 10MW) over the forty-year period 1980 – 2019. Three versions are offered:

1. Estimated historical monthly generation, backfilled with EIA observed monthly generation where available. This file is named RectifHydPlus_HIST-backfilled_MWh.csv.

2. Estimated historical monthly generation with no backfill from EIA observations. This file is named RectifHydPlus_HIST-validation_MWh.csv.

3. Computed monthly generation based on a hydrological control, removing effects of capacity and operational change over the reanalysis period. This file is named RectifHydPlus_CONTROL_MWh.csv.

RectifHydPlus_misc.zip: contains miscellaneous data supporting RectifHydPlus. This includes a reference table that maps RectifHydPlus ID to other common identifiers, including EIA ID, EHA, and COMPLXID. It also includes a daily, spill adjusted water release time series created for each dam. Users may adopt these time series to create generation totals to any desired aggregation (e.g., weekly total generation). RectifHydPlus does not provide generation totals at finer than monthly temporal resolution as these estimates are difficult to validate given lack of observed data with sub-monthly resolution.

RectifHydPlus_code.zip: contains the code used to generate RectifHydPlus. This is specific release of the code held at the following GitLab repository: https://code.ornl.gov/turnersw/rectifhydplus

RectifHydPlus_inputs.zip: contains all input datasets used to create RectifHydPlus.