Informing utility-scale energy generation and storage decisions
Recurring Market Tracking & Data Products
We publish annual market tracking data products for multiple generation and storage technologies.
To keep up with trends in the electricity market, EMP compiles and releases key data on interconnection queues, hybrid power plants, wholesale electricity prices, and retail electricity prices. EMP also regularly publishes data on utility-scale generation and storage, and collaborates with USGS to produce detailed data tools on the location of generation plants.
Selected Projects
- Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection
- Hybrid Power Plants Data Update
- The Wholesale Electricity Prices (WEP) Tool
- Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers
- Utility-Scale Solar Data Update
- Land-Based Wind Data Update
- US Large-Scale Photovoltaic Database
- US Wind Turbine Database
- State Electricity Resource Standards
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Recent Publications
Rand, Joseph, Anna Cheyette, Chris Talley, Steven Zhang, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Fredrich Kahrl."U.S. Interconnection Queue Data Through 2025: Complete Interconnection Request Dataset and Summarized Data Workbook."
(2026).
Fujita, K Sydny, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, Chris Garrity, and Jing Ke."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files."
(2026).
Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Ryan Hledik, and Long Lam."Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update−2026 Edition."
(2026).
Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files."
(2026). DOI
Rand, Joseph, Nick Manderlink, Steven Zhang, Chris Talley, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, and Fredrich Kahrl."Queued Up: 2025 Edition, Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2024."
(2025).
Fujita, K Sydny, Ben Hoen, Dana Robson, Joe Rand, Zach Ancona, Jay Diffendorfer, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, Jianyu Gu, Jordan Macknick, and K R. Justin Thomas."The Rise of US Photovoltaics: An Exploration of Land Use Density Trends in Large‐Scale Solar Facility Attributes, 2012–2021."International Journal of Photoenergy
2025.1 (2025). DOI
Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Anna Cheyette, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2025 Data Update."
(2025).
