tensorust/eia860-retirements-sample

Retiring Power Plant Sites: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

Every U.S. generator scheduled to retire through 2031, and every one that retired since 2022, with the site, owner and grid.

Headline: 53,153 MW of operating U.S. generating capacity, 285 generators at 132 plants, carries a planned retirement date between 2026 and 2031 in EIA's September 2026 860M, and another 54,411 MW retired from 2022 on.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 1,648 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/eia860-retirements/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Nameplate capacity (MW)
CA	255	5,750
VA	138	2,518
NY	81	1,367
OH	75	4,651
TX	71	8,336
IL	67	10,389
NJ	67	1,511
NC	62	1,992
MN	60	4,593
TN	59	6,951
AK	51	54
CO	45	5,101
TOTAL	1,648	107,561

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 1,648 rows
• Key fields: record_type, plant_id, plant_name, generator_id, owner_entity_id, owner_entity, state, county, latitude, longitude
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: All U.S. generators of 1 MW or more reported on EIA-860M: 1,648 generator rows at 662 plants, 107,564 MW. EIA-860M September 2026 release; built Nov 6 2026

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
record_type	planned retirement (still operating) or retired since 2022
plant_id	EIA plant code
plant_name	Plant name
generator_id	EIA generator id
owner_entity_id	EIA entity id of the reporting owner or operator
owner_entity	Reporting entity name
state	Plant state
county	Plant county
latitude	Plant latitude
longitude	Plant longitude
balancing_authority	Balancing authority code (PJM, MISO, CISO and so on)
sector	EIA sector (utility, IPP, CHP and so on)
technology	EIA technology
fuel_code	Energy source code
prime_mover	Prime mover code
nameplate_mw	Generator nameplate MW
summer_mw	Net summer capacity MW
operating_year	Year the generator went into service
planned_retirement_year	Planned (or actual, for retired rows) retirement year
planned_retirement_month	Planned or actual retirement month
years_in_service_at_retirement	Retirement year minus operating year
status	EIA status code, or retired
plant_nameplate_mw	Plant's total operating nameplate MW now (0 when the plant is fully retired)
plant_generators	Operating generators at the plant
plant_retiring_mw	Plant MW with a planned retirement 2026 to 2031
plant_retiring_share	plant_retiring_mw over plant_nameplate_mw
plant_retired_since_2022_mw	Plant MW retired 2022 on
plant_fully_closed	True when the plant has no operating capacity left
owner_oid	Tensorust ontology organization id for the owner
owner_sources	Public sources the owner appears in
owner_federal_awards_fy25plus	Owner's federal awards FY2025 on, USD (ontology)

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
Grid region file	$750	Every planned and recent retirement in one balancing authority or up to 3 states, with coordinates, plant shares and owners. CSV, Excel and a map-ready GeoJSON on request.
National site list	$3,500	All 1,648 generators at 662 plants nationwide, plant roll-ups, owner ontology links.
Monthly tracker	$9,000 a year	The national list re-run on every monthly EIA-860M release, with retirement dates that moved, new announcements and plants that fully closed marked. Internal use, unlimited seats.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/eia860-retirements/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Read the EIA-860M September 2026 generator workbook, keep Operating generators with a planned retirement year 2026 to 2031 and Retired generators with a retirement year of 2022 or later, sum each plant's operating nameplate, compute the plant's retiring MW and share, flag plants with no operating capacity left, and join the owner name to the Tensorust ontology (111 of 455 owners matched).

Not a list of sites for sale, not a firm retirement (owners move planned dates, and EIA reports what owners file), and not interconnection rights (reusing a point of interconnection depends on the grid operator's rules). Owner is the EIA reporting entity, not every co-owner.

Sources

• EIA-860M Monthly Update to the Annual Electric Generator Report, September 2026, https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/eia860-retirements/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

Tensorust LLC, Tuckahoe NY. mattbusel@tensorust.com | https://tensorust.com