Electric Power Annual

Electric Power Annual is the yearly compendium of electric power sector statistics published by EIA, entering this catalog through a related_datasets entry that names it exactly: 'EIA Electric Power Annual', slug 'eia-electric-power-annual', industry_slug 'independent-power-producers-energy-traders'.

The record positions it as 'a companion reference for electric utilities' — the annual aggregates layer that the sector's consumption surveys do not cover. That places it beside the higher-frequency monthly series and the equipment-level inventories: annual context on top, operational detail below.

Concretely, the cataloged edition carries roughly 130 tables across twelve sections - net generation, capacity, sales, revenue, prices, fuel costs, emissions and reliability - released October 16, 2025 with data for 2024, and the archive reaches back to 1994.

Scale is documented, not approximate: the cataloged record describes "~130 tables per edition; all-tables ZIP roughly 5-15 MB", organized into twelve numbered sections plus appendices - electricity sales (14 tables), net generation (tables 3.1.A through 3.27), generation capacity (14 tables) and 25 tables of fuel receipts, cost and quality. The current edition carries 2024 data, was released October 16, 2025, and the next edition is scheduled for October 2026.

Annual aggregates answer structural questions — how the sector is shaped — that monthly consumption series answer badly, and vice versa. Pick an annual compendium when you want the year's settled picture; pick a consumption survey when you want movement within the year. Substituting one for the other is the usual way power-sector analyses end up either noisy or stale.

Catalog placement is a practical signal too: filed under independent power producers while serving electric utilities, so check both industry listings. And cadence is a buyer variable in itself — with 345 of 1,744 cataloged datasets updating annually, an October release cycle means figures are never fresher than a few months old; teams needing intra-year movement must pair this compendium with monthly or weekly series rather than expecting the annual to carry it. Two practical facts reinforce the split: the archive reaches back to 1994 for three-decade structural views, and everything under www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/ downloads without registration, key or fee as public-domain US government statistics.

1. Confirm canonical identity. The catalog entry is 'EIA Electric Power Annual' at slug 'eia-electric-power-annual' — match both before deduplicating against vendor bundles.
2. Check industry placement. It is filed under independent-power-producers-energy-traders data while serving as a reference for electric-utilities data.
3. Pair it with the companions. electric-power-monthly for higher frequency, generator-inventory for equipment-level detail.
4. Mind the boundary. Its brief is the yearly aggregates that consumption surveys do not cover — don't double-count overlapping measures.

• electric-power-monthly — the monthly counterpart for higher-frequency reads.
• generator-inventory — the equipment-level view beneath the annual aggregates.
• Category pages: electric-utilities data, independent-power-producers-energy-traders data.