Data Explorer
The raw EIA hourly generation data behind every scenario — aggregated so it’s actually readable.
Not a model projection — what this region's grid actually ran on, read as lives. Coal-heavy regions (the Midwest and Plains today) sit highest; renewable- and nuclear-heavy regions lowest. About 94% of it is modeled (air-pollution/radiation) rather than counted accidents. Covers 99% of generation (the rest is “other,” which has no single coefficient). See the risk ladder for the per-source rates.
The band is scientific uncertainty, not rounding. Each source's death rate is a central estimate with a much higher upper bound — coal's depends on how air-pollution exposure is modeled; hydro's high bound includes the 1975 Banqiao dam failure, its central figure excludes it. Reported deaths carry those ranges across the mix, so a mortality figure is a band skewed upward, never a single number. Pricing a death adds a second range (the VSL is itself low/central/high), so any priced-mortality cost inherits both.
Deaths are an accounting attribution to the generating region, not an atmospheric model — real pollution crosses regional boundaries, harming people on both sides of a border. The uncertainty band propagates into any priced-mortality cost, so a priced total is a band, not a single number.
Typical day — capacity factor
Average capacity used (capacity factor), by hour of day, across 6 years.
Weekly average, 2020–2025
Same data, week by week, showing the seasonal pattern and any year-over-year drift.
Peak capacity by year
The highest hourly output ever recorded for each source, per year — this is what the model treats as that source’s starting capacity.
| Year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,781 | 8,859 | 35,180 | 71,648 | 40,345 | 6,314 | 2,113 | 3,979 |
| 2021 | 2,922 | 8,990 | 35,180 | 71,648 | 42,678 | 6,544 | 6,544 | 3,979 |
| 2022 | 4,485 | 9,371 | 46,004 | 71,648 | 42,678 | 6,768 | 11,841 | 4,168 |
| 2023 | 4,931 | 9,891 | 46,004 | 75,232 | 42,678 | 6,768 | 11,841 | 4,168 |
| 2024 | 7,842 | 9,891 | 46,004 | 75,232 | 42,678 | 6,768 | 11,841 | 4,168 |
| 2025 | 12,186 | 10,014 | 33,959 | 75,926 | 33,428 | 6,739 | 6,933 | 3,539 |
Source: US Energy Information Administration, hourly generation by fuel type, 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2025. Data version 20260710T035737Z.