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Form EIA-411, "Coordinated Bulk Power Supply Program Report"
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- The information reported on this annual form includes: (1) peak demand and energy for the preceding year and 5 future years; (2) existing and planned generating capacity; (3) scheduled capacity purchases and sales; (4) bulk electric transmission system maps and power flow cases, and (5) proposed transmission lines. The 8 North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) report information to the NERC headquarters, using data collected from their members. The NERC headquarters then compiles the data and provides consolidated regional council reports to EIA.

Required Respondents: - The Form EIA-411 has both mandatory and voluntary reporting obligations. Schedule 7 is voluntary. All other Schedules are mandatory. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is the required respondent for the electric power industry that is geographically located in the contiguous United States.

Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Manager: John Makens, Telephone: (202) 586-4059

Form EIA-412, "Annual Electric Industry Financial Report" (The EIA-412 survey has been terminated)
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- The information on this annual form are accounting data, including electric balance sheets, income statements, sales of electricity for resale, electric operations and maintenance expenses, and purchased power and power exchanges. The information is collected from approximately 500 municipally owned, federally-owned, and State-owned regulated entities in the United States with approximately 800 additional non-utility entities filing Schedule 9, "Electric Generating Plant Statistics." For Schedules 1-8 of the form, each municipally owned or State-owned utility must submit the form if their annual sales to ultimate consumers or sales for resale are 150,000 megawatthours or greater for the 2 previous years. All Federal entities must submit Schedules 1-12. Municipally owned and State-owned utilities and non-utilities with a nameplate generating capacity of 10 megawatts or greater must also file Schedule 9. In addition, municipally-owned, federally-owned, and State-owned utilities, and generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives having a nominal voltage of 132 kilovolts or greater must submit Schedule 10, "Existing Transmission Lines," Schedule 11, "Transmission Lines Added Within Last Year," and Schedule 12, "Transmission System Upgrades."

Required Respondents - The accounting data (Schedules 1 through 8) are completed by each municipality, political subdivision, State, and Federal entity engaged in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity, which had at least 150,000 megawatthours of sales to ultimate consumers and/or at least 150,000 megawatthours of sales for resale for each of the 2 previous years.

The plant statistics data (Schedule 9) are completed by each municipality, political subdivision, State, Federal, and unregulated entity owning plants with a nameplate of 10 megawatts or larger.

The transmission data (Schedules 10 and 11) are completed by each municipality, political subdivision, State, Federal, and generation and transmission cooperative owning transmission lines having a nominal voltage of 132 kilovolts or greater.

Note: The Form EIA-412, "Annual Electric Industry Financial Report," has been temporarily suspended. No data for this form will be collected for the 2004 reporting year. Due to budgetary constraints, the EIA-412 survey data has been suspended by the Energy Information Administration until further notice.

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Managers: Karen McDaniel, or Betty Williams, Telephone: Karen at (202) 586-4280 or Betty at (202) 586-5331.

Form OE-417, "Electric Emergency Incident and Disturbance Report"
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- collects information on electric emergency incidents and disturbances for DOE’s use in fulfilling its overall national security and other energy management responsibilities. The information is also used by DOE for analytical purposes. Electric utilities that operate as Control Area Operators and/or Reliability Authorities as well as other electric utilities, as appropriate, file the form. The form is a mandatory filing whenever an electrical incident or disturbance is sufficiently large enough to cross the reporting thresholds. The Form OE-417 must be submitted to the DOE Operations Center within one hour if one of the following apply: (1) actual physical attack that causes major interruptions or impacts to critical infrastructure facilities or to operations; (2) actual cyber or communications attack that causes major interruptions of electrical system operations; (3) complete operational failure or shut-down of the transmission and/or distribution electrical system; (4) Electrical System Separation (Islanding) where part or parts of a power grid remain(s) operational in an otherwise blacked out area or within the partial failure of an integrated electrical system; (5) uncontrolled loss of 300 Megawatts (MW) or more of firm system loads for more than 15 minutes from a single incident; (6) load shedding of 100 MW or more implemented under emergency operational policy; (7) system-wide voltage reductions of 3 percent or more; and (8) public appeal to reduce the use of electricity for purposes of maintaining the continuity of the electric power system.

The Form OE-417 must be submitted to the DOE Operations Center within six hours if one of the following apply and none of the eight categories above apply: (1) suspected physical attacks that could impact electric power system adequacy or reliability, or vandalism which targets components of any security systems; (2) suspected cyber or communications attacks that could impact electric power system adequacy or vulnerability; (3) loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more; and (4) fuel supply emergencies that could impact electric power system adequacy or reliability.

Collection Frequency: On occasion, Survey Manager: Alice Lippert, Telephone: (202) 586-9600

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Form EIA-423, "Monthly Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report"
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- The information on this form is submitted by approximately 740 non-utility power plants and is used to collect monthly information that is not collected by the FERC. Each fossil-fuel steam electric generator with a nameplate capacity of 50 megawatts or greater that is not regulated by FERC submits the information on the Form EIA-423. The combined information from the Form EIA-423 and FERC Form 423 is used to present statistics on the costs and qualities of the fossil fuels that are used by the entire electric power industry. The data collected include the fuel quantity received, quality (Btu, sulfur, and ash content), purchase type, cost, contract expiration date, tolling agreements, and supplier of fossil fuels delivered for the generation of electric power. In addition, for coal only, data will include type of mine and the State and county where the mine is located.

Required Respondents - The owner or operator of an electricity generating plant or CHP plant must file the Form EIA-423 if the plant’s total fossil-fueled nameplate generating capacity is 50 or more megawatts. Respondents who are currently filing data on the FERC Form 423 (in most cases, regulated utility steam-electric generators) are not required to submit this survey. For plants that have tolling agreements, all necessary data should be obtained from the fuel supplier. If the fuel supplier will not provide the data to the owner or operator, the responsibility for filing the survey rests with the fuel supplier.

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Collection Frequency: Monthly, Survey Manager: Rebecca McNerney, Telephone: (202) 586-4509

Form EIA-767, "Steam-Electric Plant Operation and Design Report"
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- The information on this annual form is from all steam-electric generating plants with a total nameplate capacity of at least 10 megawatts that burns combustible fuels (about 1,400 plants). Approximately 770 plants have a nameplate capacity of 100 megawatts or greater, and must complete the entire Form EIA-767. Smaller plants are not required to provide certain information, such as electric generator and cooling system data. Data collected on the Form EIA-767 include design parameters and annual operations data regarding each plant's boilers, generators, cooling systems, flue gas particulate collectors, flue gas desulfurization units, stacks, and flues.

Required Respondents A separate Form EIA-767 is filed for each existing, under-construction, or planned U.S. organic-fueled or combustible renewable steam-electric generating plant with a nameplate capacity of 10 or more megawatts regardless of current ownership and/or operation. If a plant has a nameplate capacity of 100 megawatts or greater, the entire Form EIA-767 is filed. If a plant has a nameplate capacity of 10 megawatts but less than 100 megawatts, Schedules 1, 2, 4 (Part A, D, and E), 5, 7 and 8 (Part A and B). Schedule 10, "Footnotes," are filed as applicable.

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Manager: Natalie Ko, Telephone: (202) 586-3139

Form EIA-826, "Monthly Electric Sales and Revenue with State Distributions Report"
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- The information on this form is collected on a monthly basis by State from a sample consisting of approximately 450 utility and non-utility entities that have sales to end-use customers. Data are collected separately for: utilities with regulated sales; entities with market-based sales (for energy-only service); and entities that provide only energy delivery services, where the energy is supplied by another entity. Data collected on the Form EIA-826 include revenue (associated with the sale of electricity), sales (megawatthours delivered), and number of customers by end-use sector and State. Average electricity prices are derived from these data.

Required Respondents - The Form EIA-826 is to be completed by those electric utilities, energy service providers, and distribution companies that sell or distribute electric power to end users and have been selected to report electric energy information on a monthly basis. The Form EIA-826 is a statistical sample of respondents chosen from the respondent frame of the Form EIA-861, “Annual Electric Power Industry Report.” The Form EIA-861 is used to collect retail sales of electricity and associated revenue from all electric utilities, energy service providers, and distribution companies in the United States on an annual basis.

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Collection Frequency: Monthly, Survey Manager: Charlene Harris-Russell, Telephone: (202) 586-2661

Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report"
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- The information on this form is collected annually from all electric generators in the United States with a capacity of one megawatt or greater. Approximately 2,700 companies that operate 5,700 (both existing and planned) plants containing over 16,000 generators file this form. Data collected on the Form EIA-860 includes ownership, generator capacity, fuel capability, operational status, on-line date and actual or planned retirement date, regulatory status, energy sources, prime mover, nameplate capacity, net summer capacity, net winter capacity, in-service date, NAICS designation, and fuel switching capability. In addition to existing units, the form collects data for planned and modified units expected to enter commercial operation within five years.

Required Respondents - The Form EIA-860 is completed for all electric generating plants, which have or will have a nameplate rating of 1 megawatt (1000 kW) or more, and are operating or plan to be operating within 5 years of the year of this form. The operator (or planned operator) of jointly-owned plants should be the only respondent for those plants.

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Manager: Kenneth McClevey, Telephone: (202) 586-4258


Form EIA-860M, "Monthly Update to the Annual Electric Generator Report"
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- The Form EIA-860M is a monthly report that collects data on the status of proposed new generators or changes to existing generators, within 12 months of the new or modified generator beginning commercial operations, typically from about 75 to 100 plants per month. The form is designed to collect information on changes to plans previously reported to EIA on the annual Form EIA-860. The plant characteristics of interest are changes to the previously reported on-line month and year, prime mover type, capacity, and energy sources.
Collection Frequency: Monthly, Survey Manager: Kenneth McClevey, Telephone: (202) 586-4258

Form EIA-861, "Annual Electric Power Industry Report"
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- The information on this form is collected from approximately 3,300 regulated entities and power marketers in the United States involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy. Data collected on the Form EIA-861 include revenues (associated with the sale of electricity), sales (megawatthours delivered), number of customers, energy sources and disposition, customer service programs, electric operating revenue, demand side management information and distribution system information.

Required Respondents: - The Form EIA-861 is to be completed by electric industry participants including: electric utilities, wholesale power marketers (registered with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), energy service providers (registered with the States), and electric power producers.

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Manager: Karen McDaniel, Telephone: (202) 586-4280

Form EIA-906, "Power Plant Report"
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- The Forms EIA-906 and EIA-920, in combination, collect the fuel consumption, electric generation, and fuel stocks of all power plants in the United States with a generating capacity of one megawatt and greater (i.e., all operating plants included in the survey frame for the Form EIA-860). The Form EIA-920 collects data from combined heat and power plants (these are most frequently industrial cogenerators, such as paper mills and refineries). The Form EIA-906 collects data from all-electric power plants. The data on these two surveys are collected monthly from a statistically determined sample of relatively large plants. Approximately 1,400 plants are sampled each month on the Form EIA-906. Those plants that do not file monthly are required to file annually. There are approximately 3,000 plants that file the Form EIA-906 annually. Approximately 300 plants are sampled each month on the Form EIA-920. Those plants that do not file monthly are required to file annually. There are approximately 700 plants that file the Form EIA-920 annually.

Required Respondents: - The monthly Form EIA-906 is a sample of electric power plants. Electric power plants that are not selected to respond monthly must file annually on this form.

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Managers: Melvin Johnson, for regulated power plants, and Ron Hankey, for unregulated power plants, Telephones: Melvin Johnson is at (202) 586-2898; Ron Hankey is at (202) 586-2630

Form EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report"
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- collects information from combined heat and power plants with a generating capacity of 1 megawatt (1000 kW) and above in the United States. Data collected include electric power generation, fuel consumption, fuel heat content, and fossil fuel stocks. These data are used to monitor the current status and trends of electric power generation facilities. The data are disseminated in various EIA information products. The data are used by public and private analysts to monitor the current status and trends of the electric power industry. Form EIA-920 monthly respondents are a representative sample of combined heat and power plants with a generating capacity of 1 megawatt (1000 kW) and above by State and by energy source. Combined heat and power plants that do not report data monthly submit data

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Collection Frequency: Annually, Survey Manager: Chris Cassar, Telephones: (202) 586-5448

Form EIA-923, "Power Plant Operations Report"
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- is a new form in 2008 that replaces and subsumes the EIA-906, EIA-920, EIA-423, FERC Form 423, and parts of the EIA-767. It collects information from all electric power plants and combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the United States. Data collected on this form include electric power generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel stocks, and delivered fossil fuel cost and quality. These data are used to monitor the status and trends of the electric power industry and will appear in many Energy Information Administration (EIA) publications including: Electric Power Monthly, Electric Power Annual, Monthly Energy Review, Annual Energy Review, Natural Gas Monthly, Natural Gas Annual, Cost and Quality of Fuels, Quarterly Coal Report, and the Renewable Energy Annual. Further information can be found at http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html . The "Stocks at End of Reporting Period" information (SCHEDULE 4), Nonutility "Total Delivered Cost" information (SCHEDULE 2), and "Commodity Cost" information (SCHEDULE 2) reported on this form are protected information.

Required Respondents: The Form EIA-923 is a mandatory report for all electric power plants and CHP plants that meet the following criteria: 1) have a total generator nameplate capacity (sum for generators at a single site) of 1 megawatt (MW) or greater; and 2) where the generator(s), or the facility in which the generator(s) resides, is connected to the local or regional electric power grid and has the ability to draw power from the grid or deliver power to the grid. To lessen the reporting burden, a sample of plants is collected on a monthly basis. Plants that are not selected to respond monthly must respond annually for the calendar year. See instructions for each schedule for more specific filing requirements.

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