Plant and service-territory candidates
Which service-territory polygons contain each published plant's reported coordinate, from four state-hosted layers: Washington Ecology's electric utility service areas, Oregon ODOE's (electric areas only), Idaho's electricity providers and Montana's rural electric cooperatives. A row is a candidate from point-in-polygon containment, never a service relationship or a supplier: the layers are unofficial and approximate, overlaps and gaps are kept, a plant can sit inside several polygons or none, Montana's layer covers cooperatives only, and service questions go to the utility.
At a glance
- Period
- 2024
- One row is
- published plant x territory polygon containing its reported coordinate, at the inventory year and each layer's acquired copy
- Built from
- 5 sourcesgrain not declared; plant x report_date (annual)wa ecology territoriesor odoe territoriesid gis territoriesmt coop territoriespudl plants
- Edition in this release
- PUDL v2026.9.0 (embedded 2026.8.1.dev50), metadata publication 2024-06-03, layer 'Oregon_NG_Electric_Utility_Boundaries_19Aug2025', metadata publication 2024-10-03, metadata publication 2026-02-19 · 21 files · retrieved 2026-09-29
- Download
- plant_territory_candidate.parquet ↓762 rows · 6 KB
Each source: evidence, method and origin5 sources
| Source | One source row is | Evidence and method |
|---|---|---|
| Electric Utility Service Areas (CPR MapServer layer 0 ElectricUtilityServiceAreas) ↗Notice and licenceLicence: Category 1 - Public Information (Ecology) | Not declared | reported · directCategory 1 - Public Information. These data can be shared publicly. Provided as is without warranty. Boundaries are unofficial and approximate; overlaps and gaps are preserved; a point inside a polygon indicates a candidate utility, not a service determination. Service questions go to the utility. |
| Oregon Natural Gas and Electric Utility Service Areas (ODOE Find Your Utility), layer 0 ↗Notice and licenceLicence: ODOE disclaimer (informational use; no warranty; not for legal or engineering purposes) | Not declared | reported · directCompiled by ODOE from many sources for informational purposes only; errors may exist; not a legal boundary or service guarantee. Electric utilities only in this release. |
| Electricity Providers Symbolized (ElectricProvider), layer 0 ↗Notice and licenceLicence: Reference only; accuracy not guaranteed (item terms) | Not declared | reported · directTo be used for reference only, accuracy not guaranteed. Compiled from utility shapefiles where provided, otherwise digitized from maps; municipal boundaries used for cities. Not a service guarantee. |
| Montana Rural Electric Cooperative Service Areas, layer 0 ↗Notice and licenceLicence: No terms stated on the public item | Not declared | reported · curatedCooperative service areas only (no investor-owned or municipal utilities); digitized from an association map, so boundaries are approximate. No terms are stated by the publisher; used as attributed context per project policy for public state-hosted geometry where no canonical layer exists. |
| U.S. EIA Form 860 (mix of EIA forms, harvested) ↗Notice and licenceLicence: CC-BY-4.0 | plant x report_date (annual) | reported · derived |
Measures
| Column | Unit | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
territory_entity_id | count | One row per published plant and polygon whose boundary contains the plant's reported coordinate. The table carries no quantity; a row is a candidate, never a service relationship. |
Population
What the rows are counted against- Publishedpublished plants of the inventory year; those with a source-reported coordinate are tested against every polygon a layer keeps, and overlaps are kept, so a plant may have several candidates755 plants
- LocatedWith a source-reported coordinate751 plants
- With a candidate707 plants
- With several candidates50 plants
Each layer4 layers
| Layer | State | Polygons tested | Polygons filtered out | Candidatescandidates | With a candidateplants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id-gis-territories | ID | 28 | 0 | 201 | 182 |
| mt-coop-territories | MT | 25 | 0 | 76 | 76 |
| or-odoe-territories | OR | 42 | 3 | 315 | 315 |
| wa-ecology-territories | WA | 65 | 0 | 170 | 164 |
Coverage at 2024
762 candidates| Measure | With a value | Without a value | Not applicable |
|---|---|---|---|
| candidatecount | 762 | 0 | 0 |
By source_ref4 values
| source_ref | candidates | candidate: with a value |
|---|---|---|
| id-gis-territories | 201 | 2010 without · 0 not applicable |
| mt-coop-territories | 76 | 760 without · 0 not applicable |
| or-odoe-territories | 315 | 3150 without · 0 not applicable |
| wa-ecology-territories | 170 | 1700 without · 0 not applicable |
What is missing, and why
- Listed without a reported value · candidateRows with no value for this measure; published as null, never zero0 candidates
- No row in the sourcePublished plants with a reported coordinate in a state a layer covers that fall inside no polygon of any layer: the layers are unofficial and approximate with their gaps kept, and Montana's covers cooperatives only. No service relationship is implied either way28 plants
- Not applicablePublished plants with a reported coordinate outside every layer's state and inside no polygon: no territory layer covers their state16 plants
- Not derivedPublished plants without a source-reported coordinate: containment cannot be tested, so they have no candidate, which is not a claim of none4 plants
- Outside the atlas framePlants in the inventory that the atlas does not publish: outside the frame authorities and the core states, never tested15,424 plants
- Not applicablePolygons a layer's declared filter leaves out, such as natural-gas service areas in a combined gas and electric layer: never tested against plants3 polygons
How often it changes
Checked 2026-09-22- Publisher
- None of the four layers states a fixed schedule. Ecology's layer metadata gives its maintenance frequency as needed; ODOE's item says it regularly updates utility service areas and keeps an update log; the Idaho and Montana items state no update frequency.gis.ecology.wa.gov/serverext/rest/services/CPR/CPR/MapServer/0/metadata ↗www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/2102826e218c4d36a24583613df76f0c ↗www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/88b876b91ca14dc6b94d7794522c7373 ↗www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/ba0648df3ce94af78865f10d0c583451 ↗
- Delay
- The layers are boundaries without a reporting period. On the checked date Ecology's metadata dated its publication June 3, 2024, and the Idaho, Oregon and Montana service layers were last edited October 11, 2024, August 25, 2025 and February 19, 2026. Plant coordinates are from the EIA-860 inventory year.gis.ecology.wa.gov/serverext/rest/services/CPR/CPR/MapServer/0/metadata ↗services6.arcgis.com/uYwdclOm9zYuuxho/arcgis/rest/services/Electricity_Providers_Symbolized/FeatureServer/0 ↗services.arcgis.com/uUvqNMGPm7axC2dD/arcgis/rest/services/Oregon_Natural_Gas_and_Electric_Utility_Incentive_Layer_Update_13Dec2024_v01/FeatureServer/0 ↗services.arcgis.com/qnjIrwR8z5Izc0ij/arcgis/rest/services/Montana_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Service_Areas/FeatureServer/0 ↗
- This atlas
- The atlas acquires each layer from its service with reconciled feature counts and keeps the copy content-addressed with its metadata, named under edition with its retrieval time; the table changes only when a layer is acquired again or the inventory year moves. No timed refresh.gis.ecology.wa.gov/serverext/rest/services/CPR/CPR/MapServer/0 ↗services.arcgis.com/uUvqNMGPm7axC2dD/arcgis/rest/services/Oregon_Natural_Gas_and_Electric_Utility_Incentive_Layer_Update_13Dec2024_v01/FeatureServer/0 ↗services6.arcgis.com/uYwdclOm9zYuuxho/arcgis/rest/services/Electricity_Providers_Symbolized/FeatureServer/0 ↗services.arcgis.com/qnjIrwR8z5Izc0ij/arcgis/rest/services/Montana_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Service_Areas/FeatureServer/0 ↗
Checks and corrections
- Passed
geometry.wa-ecology-territories{"bbox":[-124.744953176761,45.54373510429847,-116.9193936996402,49.00250007706432],"crs":"OGC:CRS84 (implicit)","empty":0,"encoding":"WKB","expected_rows":65,"geo_version":"1.1.0","invalid":0,"rows":65} - Passed
geometry.or-odoe-territories{"bbox":[-124.570769629615,41.976565007839,-116.46382950203,46.2946071382089],"crs":"OGC:CRS84 (implicit)","empty":0,"encoding":"WKB","expected_rows":45,"geo_version":"1.1.0","invalid":0,"rows":45} - Passed
geometry.id-gis-territories{"bbox":[-118.77730505841431,40.94662157230305,-110.77491202686241,48.996349677805355],"crs":"OGC:CRS84 (implicit)","empty":0,"encoding":"WKB","expected_rows":28,"geo_version":"1.1.0","invalid":0,"rows":28} - Passed
geometry.mt-coop-territories{"bbox":[-116.98314453914149,43.978476344543765,-103.50905104232308,49.00084344500081],"crs":"OGC:CRS84 (implicit)","empty":0,"encoding":"WKB","expected_rows":25,"geo_version":"1.1.0","invalid":0,"rows":25} - Passed
territory.overlaps_preserved{"plants_in_multiple_polygons":50}
No corrections apply to this dataset in this release. Earlier editions: not available (earlier releases did not retain per-dataset edition comparisons).
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