munimv2

Posted on Oct 22

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While rebuilding a month-to-month changelog from all 134 of EIA's monthly EIA-860M workbooks (July 2015 to August 2026), I found 2024 had 313 "back" rows, against 1 to 40 in every other year. Almost all were in December 2024, right after 282 generators dropped out of the November 2024 workbook. In no other month of the 134 do more than 14 generators come back.

I wanted to know whether the gap was in my reader, in Catalyst Cooperative's PUDL archive of the files, or in EIA's own file. So a small job read the October, November and December 2024 workbooks twice: once from PUDL's archive and once downloaded from EIA's own archive pages on 22 October 2026.

What it found.

All three pairs are byte-identical (same size and md5). The gap is in the November 2024 file EIA still serves.

282 generators listed in October 2024 are not in November's file; 279 of them are listed again in December.…