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 | 2,308 | 0 | 5,996 | 26,768 | 11,883 | 4,945 | 183 | 411 |
| 2021 | 2,910 | 0 | 6,035 | 26,768 | 13,515 | 4,945 | 221 | 462 |
| 2022 | 3,711 | 0 | 6,035 | 29,021 | 13,515 | 4,945 | 923 | 462 |
| 2023 | 3,796 | 0 | 7,123 | 29,021 | 13,515 | 4,945 | 923 | 462 |
| 2024 | 4,851 | 0 | 8,239 | 29,021 | 13,515 | 4,945 | 923 | 462 |
| 2025 | 5,201 | 0 | 8,353 | 70,683 | 10,423 | 3,192 | 861 | 418 |
Source: US Energy Information Administration, hourly generation by fuel type, 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2025. Data version 20260710T035737Z.