Thermoelectric cooling water — EIA-923
Plant-level cooling water withdrawal and consumption for United States thermoelectric generation, reported monthly by operators on the mandatory EIA-923 return, with the water type, the source type and the name of the water body drawn from and discharged to.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- No
- Restrictions
- Applies to material authored by US federal agencies. Third-party material carried within a federal product may be separately protected.
- Terms last checked
- 26 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- United States Energy Information Administration
- Geographic coverage
- United States — around 740 generating stations
- Temporal coverage
- 2014 onwards
- Resolution
- Monthly by plant and cooling system; Hydrionis stores complete years
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- xlsx
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- sector use, withdrawal, energy water
Notes
The first facility-level water layer Hydrionis collected. It was chosen over every corporate disclosure assessed because it is a statutory return rather than a voluntary report, it is a United States government work and therefore public domain, and it carries withdrawal and consumption as separate reported quantities — which for cooling water differ by a factor of a hundred between a once-through and a recirculating plant. It also names the water body each plant draws from and discharges to, which is publisher evidence of the same kind the gauge linkage rests on. Hydrionis stores annual facility totals, summed from the operator’s own monthly returns across the plant’s cooling systems, and only for years in which all twelve months were reported. Company-wide totals are never assembled from these: a utility with fifteen plants appears fifteen times and is not summed.
What Hydrionis holds from this publisher
The publisher’s own coverage is above. This is what Hydrionis has actually taken from it, at the subjects it measures — gauges, boreholes, reservoirs or places.
What is measured
- Facility reclaimed water use · Mm³
- Facility water consumption · Mm³
- Facility water withdrawal · Mm³
How current it is
- Partial record held
- EIA offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2024; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. EIA publishes these returns from 2014, and Hydrionis holds all of them. Nothing earlier exists in this form: the cooling water schedule was added to the EIA-923 return in 2014.EIA publishes these returns from 2014, and Hydrionis holds all of them. Nothing earlier exists in this form: the cooling water schedule was added to the EIA-923 return in 2014.
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