We've been working on integrating more data about "traditional" pollution and emissions control systems into PUDL recently, and some of that has finally landed in our nightly build outputs and @datasette deployment
Here's 74,090 rows describing ~100 boiler attributes from 2008 to 2021.
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We're interested in combining this data with CapEx reported in FERC Form 1 to understand how money has flowed into existing fossil generators & extended their operational lives, which seems relevant in the context of #45Q tax credits for investments in #CCS
Understanding how complicated a given unit is -- how many boilers, generators, smokestacks, cooling & emissions controls systems are all hooked up together -- may also provide some insight into the likely cost of fitting it with CCS.
There are still more association tables to pull in that detail the linkages between different plants/boilers/generators/smokestacks/emissions systems, and provide attributes for those individual systems, but this is a good start.
We're hopeful that with the recently updated EPA CAMD / EIA power system crosswalk there will be interesting analyses that use the boiler attributes along with the EPA CEMS hourly emissions data.
A data crosswalk to integrate U.S. power sector emission and operation data from EPA to EIA - GitHub - USEPA/camd-eia-crosswalk: A data crosswalk to integrate U.S. power sector emission and operati...
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