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 | 328 | 0 | 8,495 | 10,886 | 6,030 | 5,447 | 0 | 42 |
| 2021 | 468 | 0 | 8,495 | 10,886 | 6,206 | 5,511 | 0 | 53 |
| 2022 | 1,743 | 17 | 8,601 | 11,541 | 6,363 | 5,672 | 74 | 70 |
| 2023 | 1,743 | 17 | 8,601 | 11,541 | 6,363 | 5,672 | 74 | 1,835 |
| 2024 | 1,743 | 17 | 8,601 | 11,933 | 6,363 | 5,672 | 74 | 1,835 |
| 2025 | 1,250 | 0 | 8,595 | 13,703 | 5,518 | 5,502 | 65 | 68 |
Source: US Energy Information Administration, hourly generation by fuel type, 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2025. Data version 20260710T035737Z.