nameplate capacity

A generator's rated maximum output, the attribute that sets Form EIA-860's 1 MW reporting threshold and drives the tens-of-thousands-row operable generator sheet covering the entire US fleet above that cutoff.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - EIA Form EIA-860 coverage — "every plant at or above 1 MW nameplate". - estimated_size — "the Operable generator sheet alone carries tens of thousands of rows covering the entire US fleet above 1 MW".

estimated_size is the second reference point worth knowing: "the Operable generator sheet alone carries tens of thousands of rows covering the entire US fleet above 1 MW". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

A table is only as good as the column you actually need. If this field is absent, sparsely populated or defined inconsistently across rows, no amount of surrounding richness rescues the analysis, so it deserves its own line in your evaluation checklist.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and EIA Form EIA-860 coverage lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open EIA Form EIA-860 coverage and confirm its record — "every plant at or above 1 MW nameplate" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open estimated_size and confirm its record — "the Operable generator sheet alone carries tens of thousands of rows covering the entire US fleet above 1 MW" — against the files you actually receive.

See the term applied to real records: electric-utilities data, independent-power-producers-energy-traders data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - capacity factor - Form EIA-860 - net generation