US Electricity Baseline provides a full life cycle inventory of U.S. electricity consumption, reflective of 2023 — covering fuel extraction, power plant construction, and generation across both fossil and non-fossil supply chains, broken down by technology (coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, and more) and aggregated by Balancing Authority (BA), by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) region, or as a national average.
It's part of the Federal LCA Commons family and is the electricity backbone behind USLCI: USLCI alone references it 472 times for its grid-electricity inputs.
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US Electricity Baseline in Earthster
92% of inputs resolve to real data — entirely through the Federal LCA Commons family itself, with no external backfill needed. Cycles come prefilled with properties where the source data supports it (e.g. Mass for coal-extraction datasets).
Sibling databases
US Electricity Baseline is part of a bigger family: the Federal LCA Commons. In Earthster you'll also find its sibling databases — USLCI (general U.S. industrial, transport, and energy data) and CORRIM (wood and forest products) — both of which draw on US Electricity Baseline for their own electricity inputs.
Latest improvements
Release 1.2026-06.1
New base year of data: 2023.
New data: power plant construction broken out by technology and grid operator (solar thermal, combined-cycle gas, wind); generation/residual mixes broken out by individual utility.
Properties: fuel-extraction cycles (mostly coal) now come prefilled with Mass and Lower Heating Value properties where the source data supports it.
Release v1.0.e002 — US Electricity Baseline added to Earthster
US Electricity Baseline first became available as a database in Earthster (reflective of 2016).