Electric Power Plants is a point theme representing electric power plants worldwide. Attribute information includes the name of the location, the amount of power that is produced the type of electricity production and the year operation began.
Purpose
For educational, non-commercial purposes. This dataset is appropriate for use in a GIS.
Supplemental Information
Electric power generation is the leading type of power generation in the world as a whole. Electric power plants are major enterprises and are the most significant elements of electric power generation. They provide the economy with electric power and, in some cases, heating power.
Power plants are classified according to the primary sources of energy used for power generation. The present-day power industry is based on thermoelectric, hydroelectric, and nuclear power, and these are the types shown on the maps in this atlas. Thermoelectricity is produced using the energy released by burning mineral and organic fuel. Hydroelectricity is generated by converting the mechanical energy of water flow into electricity by turning an electric generator shaft with hydraulic turbines. Nuclear electricity is produced by converting the heat generated in a nuclear reactor to steam, which turns a turbo-generator shaft. Other types of power plants are located sporadically. They use solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy.
Power plants in the economically well-developed countries are combined into automatically and centrally controlled electric power systems. They provide electric power for various kinds of consumers.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
1996
Bounding Box
West
-180
East
180
North
85
South
-85
Theme Keyword
utilitiesCommunications
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme Keyword
Electric plants
Power plants
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Place Keyword
Earth
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Temporal Keyword
1996
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
For current Columbia affiliates only.
Use Restrictions
For educational, non-commercial use only.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
None planned
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
ESRI
Delivery Point
380 New York Street
City
Redlands
State
California
Postal Code
92373-8100
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
909-793-2853
Contact Facsimile Telephone
909-793-5953
Contact Electronic Mail Address
info@esri.com
Hours of Service
7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
Data Quality Information
Lineage
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count
4203
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000000
Longitude Resolution
0.000000
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
D_Clarke_1866
Ellipsoid Name
Clarke 1866
Semi-major Axis
6378206.400000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
294.978698
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
electric
Entity Type Definition
Electric Power plants
Attributes
FID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
ESRI
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
AREA
Area
PERIMETER
Perimeter
EUENGDD_
Europe
EUENGDD_ID
Europe
TYPE
The type of electricity production station
POWER
The amount of energy produced in thousands of killowatt-hours
YEAR
The year operation began, where this information was available.
NAME
The name of the place where the station is located
DIAK_CDE
Code for any diacritical marks in the name
FIPS_CNTRY
country code
POLYGONID
ID number
SCALE
Scale
ANGLE
Angle
NAENGDD_
North America
NAENGDD_ID
North America
SAENGDD_
South America
SAENGDD_ID
South America
AUENGDD_
Australia
AUENGDD_ID
Australia
ASENGDD_
Asia
ASENGDD_ID
Asia
AFENGDD_
Africa
AFENGDD_ID
Africa
Distribution Information
Format Name
geopackage
Distributor
ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20090630
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
Contact Person
GIS/Metadata Librarian
Contact Address
Address
420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
City
New York
State or Province
NY
Postal Code
10027
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
(212) 854-6012
Contact Electronic Mail Address
data@library.columbia.edu
Hours of Service
7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
