Total Load Profiles by Balancing Authority in the Western U.S. for GODEEEP

Hourly electricity load projections for Balancing Authorities in the Western U.S. interconnection for six future years from 2025 to 2050. The data includes separate loads for transportation and non-transportation sources under two socioeconomic pathways and one climate scenario. This dataset was created by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Grid Operations, Decarbonization, Environmental and Energy Equity Platform (GODEEEP).

Use Cases

• Forecasting future electricity demand based on socioeconomic and climate scenarios described in the dataset.
• Analyzing the impact of transportation electrification on grid loads using the separate transportation load column.
• Modeling grid operations and production costs using the GridView-ready formatted data.
• Comparing electricity load profiles across different Balancing Authorities in the Western U.S. interconnection.

Strengths

• Covers six distinct future years: 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, and 2050.
• Includes two detailed socioeconomic pathways (Business-As-Usual and Net-Zero without CCS) and one climate scenario.
• Load data is disaggregated into transportation and non-transportation sources.
• Data is provided in a format ready for ingestion into the GridView production cost model.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent for the main dataset; field semantics must be inferred from the brief description.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the GODEEEP Investment under the LDRD Program.

Collection Method

Non-transportation loads derived using the Total Electricity Loads (TELL) model; transportation loads derived from a separate Zenodo source; data post-processed with a Jupyter notebook.

Time Range

Projections for the years 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, and 2050.

Geography

Balancing Authorities within the Western United States electricity grid interconnection.