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The 6 Best Electric Utilities Datasets in 2026

6 Electric utilities picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. EIA Form EIA-860 — Annual Electric Generator Inventory leads.

  • 6ranked picks
  • 1documented fields on stage
  • 0/5with mapped coverage

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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

  1. 1 EIA Consumption Efficiency - Electricity Surveys
  2. 2 10/10
    Independent power producers energy traders

    EIA Form EIA-860 — Annual Electric Generator Inventory

  3. 3 9/10
    Independent power producers energy traders

    EIA Electric Power Annual

  4. 4 9/10
    Independent power producers energy traders

    EIA Electric Power Monthly

  5. 5 9/10
    Coal consumable fuels

    EIA State Energy Data System

    Annual estimates per state, per energy source, per sector.

  6. 6 7/10
    Coal consumable fuels

    Ministry of Coal - India Coal Statistics

    Subsidiary

    Company/subsidiary level monthly, rolling up to national totals. National Coal Index one reading per month.

Frequently asked questions

Which dataset profiles commercial building energy use?

CBECS, the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey inside the same bundle. Its 2018 cycle profiles the estimated 5.9 million US commercial buildings - which consumed 6.8 quadrillion Btu and spent $141 billion that year - with building-level microdata plus national and regional estimate tables, and published cycles spanning 1992 through 2018.

How far back do official US electric power statistics go?

Deeper than most analysts expect. RECS publishes cycles from 1978, CBECS from 1992, MECS from 1994, the Electric Power Annual archives editions to 1994, SEDS state estimates run from 1960, and superseded generator-inventory forms reach 1990. Only the Monthly title is genuinely short-cycle, with state-level monthly files from 2001.

Does any electric utilities dataset break down energy use by state?

Yes - EIA State Energy Data System (SEDS) publishes one annual estimate per state, energy source and sector from 1960, keyed by documented MSN series codes and final-versus-preliminary status flags. It complements RECS, which reports state estimates only for select states and rolls everywhere else up to census division.