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An Operationally Plausible Thermoelectric Power Plant Water Use Dataset for the United States - Data & Code
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Abstract
Thermoelectric power was among the largest freshwater-withdrawing sectors in the U.S. as of the most recent complete U.S. Geological Survey national assessment (≈41% of withdrawals in 2015). Despite this scale of water use, existing datasets and raw U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) records often retain duplicates, inconsistencies, and operationally implausible values that hinder reproducible analysis. To address this, we introduce the U.S. Operationally Plausible Thermoelectric Water Use Dataset (USOPTD), a plant-resolved, quality-controlled dataset of monthly water withdrawal, consumption, and generation records for U.S. power plants from 2014-2024. USOPTD applies a novel operational-plausibility filtering method, utilizing calculated power-cooling ratios, to remove anomalous records and accurately capture real water use. Crucially, this methodology provides highly granular monthly water-use records and consumptive use coefficients for individual plants, revealing distributional variation that is obscured by aggregated median values. By resolving data fragmentation and enforcing thermodynamic constraints, USOPTD allows users to produce internally consistent estimates of thermoelectric water-use intensity across temporal, spatial, and generator-specific dimensions. This dataset provides the scientific community with an operationally plausible foundation for reliable water-energy nexus modeling and resource management.
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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
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| United States Geological Survey | Reanalyzing and predicting U.S. water use by economic history and forecast data; an experiment in short-range national hydro-economic data synthesis | G20AP00002 |
| U.S. National Science Foundation | None | CBET- 2115169 |
| U.S. National Science Foundation | None | PD 19- 1638 |
| U.S. National Science Foundation | None | CBET- 2144169 |
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