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Glossary of Datafields: 10 Types of Electric Power Plants

The goal is to provide structured and validated data so that it can be integrated with analysis tools

Organization of this Glossary File

Data formats include [Character String, Date, Double, Float and Integer].

Fields common to many or all types of power plants are listed first. Fields specific to an individual type of power plant follow.


Datafields common to many/all of the 10 types of power plants

IDENTIFIERS, LOCATION AND DATAFIELDS

ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE [Table]

This module provides a way to cross-link individual units within and between categories. For example: to establish the network (coal mines, railway links, water resources and electric transmission grid) associated with a coal power plant please add appropriate entries to this table by following the menu. These units are then stored and cross-link the selected coal power plant, coal mines, railway links, water resources and electric transmission grid.

  1. Initiate adding a link by clicking on "Add AI" button
  2. Select from menu the category, type, country, state to see list of facilities already in GEO database. Clink on name of facility (if it exists in GEO) to add it as a cross-reference
  3. If infrastructure is not yet in GEO database, please add name and description in input box to serve as a reference
  4. All the placemarks, polylines and polygons defining the associated network are displayed on individual factsheets for these plants using an API to Google Maps


GENERATING UNITS [Table]

OWNER AND OPERATOR [Table]

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


UPGRADES, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, COMMENTS AND REFERENCES [TableS]

Datafields specific to Coal, Gas, Oil and Waste Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Gas Fired Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Geothermal Power Plants

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Hydroelectric Power Plants

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Nuclear Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Oil Fired Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

Solar PhotoVoltaic Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS


Solar Thermal Power Plants

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS


Waste Fired Power Plants

DATAFIELDS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE [Table]


Wind Turbine Farms

GENERATING UNITS [Table]

DATAFIELDS