GovBot Energy Infrastructure

Status: in preparation. This service is not live and has not been submitted or published to any directory. This page is a local draft.

GovBot Energy Infrastructure is a read-only research tool. It answers questions about U.S. power plants, generating capacity, fuel facilities, pipelines and transmission lines using public EIA and DOE NETL/HIFLD data that is held with the service.

Three research briefs

• generator-mix-brief: a dated generator-capacity inventory brief for a state or source balancing-authority code.
• nearby-energy-records: plant, fuel-facility and requested transmission records near a public point.
• pipeline-corridor-records: pipeline and requested transmission records within a bounded area, with separate source dates and units.

Data the service holds

• Generator inventory: the public EIA-860M preliminary release for August 2026. It uses the Operating and Operating_PR workbook sheets. These include operating, standby and out-of-service statuses; a listed generator is not a guarantee of current availability.
• Map layers: eleven dated public EIA map layers. Each layer's source date is stored with it and reported in answers.
• Transmission lines: a held copy of DOE NETL’s transmission-line layer, credited to HIFLD 2022 and retrieved by NETL in 2023. It contains 94,216 hosted map records with reported owner, voltage and status where supplied. Coverage may be incomplete; status is historical. Query geometry is generalized, not a survey.

All data is held with the service. Your queries are not forwarded to EIA or any other agency at runtime. No user API key or agency account is required.

Official sources: EIA-860M (eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/) and EIA maps (eia.gov/maps/).

Transmission records: HIFLD, hosted by DOE NETL. Includes data from © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under ODbL 1.0. Original source credits remain in each record. Prepared free data: generalized transmission database and transformation notes. These planned public addresses become available after deployment.

Planned operations

• find_power_plants_near_point
• summarize_generating_capacity
• find_fuel_facilities_near_point
• find_pipelines_in_area
• find_transmission_lines_in_area
• describe_energy_layers

See About the plugin above for data sources and the three research briefs.

Transmission kV is voltage, not power capacity in MW or available interconnection capacity. Historical and live outage records and restoration estimates are not included.

Planned addresses

• Service: energy-api.govbot.ai (pages at /, /privacy, /terms)
• Plugin page: govbot.ai/plugins/energy-infrastructure.html (to be published later)

None of these addresses is live yet. There is no install link or demo.

Contact

Developer: Ideation Lab, Corp. Support: hello@govbot.ai