National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management

noaa-coast-msp-coastal-energy-facilities

Coastal Energy Facilities in the United States for 2012.

These data depict the location of facilities that generate electricity. The locations are created from the Environmental Protection Agency Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID). Only facilities adjacent to the coast and Great Lakes are shown. Contained within the database are records that define the fuel source and other characteristics of the facility that may benefit ocean planners. In some cases, the presence of a facility may indicate that certain power transmission infrastructure exists nearby. Absence of a facility or lack of sufficient capacity at a facility in a given area may also be an important characteristic in future energy planning activities. Please keep in mind this is not representative of the whole eGRID. This dataset can be linked back to the additional content of the eGRID by downloading the data and joining it back to the eGRID spreadsheet.

ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/CoastalEnergyFacilities.zip

The spatial range for this dataset is 18.974204° to 71.2789° latitude, and -171.737523° to -67.003299° longitude. map (center)

Also known as :

• identifier 95c62f7b-20f4-41fa-91e5-d940d6cc0646 (datagov lexicon)
• dataset coastal-energy-facilities (datagov lexicon)