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Rackflow is built entirely on public infrastructure data. This page names every source, its provider and license, the date it was last retrieved into this environment, and any attribution string its license requires, reproduced verbatim.
Sources
Retrieval dates are read live from the provenance table each time this page loads. A date of “not yet loaded” means that dataset has not been ingested here and does not contribute to results. Any source whose license barred commercial redistribution is deliberately absent, if it is not listed, it is not in the product.
Provider: HIFLD lineage, hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / DOE-CESER
U.S. Government work, public domain; attribution requestedOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), DOE, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
Provider: HIFLD lineage (ORNL / DOE-CESER)
U.S. Government work, public domain; attribution requestedOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), DOE, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
Provider: HIFLD lineage (ORNL / DOE-CESER)
U.S. Government work, public domain; attribution requestedOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), DOE, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
Provider: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Cartographic Boundary counties (1:500,000)
U.S. Government work, public domain; attribution requestedCounty boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Cartographic Boundary Files.
Provider: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-861 via API v2
EIA terms, free for commercial use; attribution required; no implied endorsementSource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861. The EIA does not endorse this product or its conclusions.
Provider: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), eGRID
U.S. Government work, public domain; attribution requestedSource: U.S. EPA Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID).
Provider: Regional transmission organizations (public boundary data)
Publicly available; per-operator terms, verified before ingestProvider: Individual ISOs/RTOs, ingested from their own published files. Covered today: MISO, ERCOT, and NYISO, each used under its own terms.
Publicly available; per-ISO terms vary and are cleared individually per operator (MISO, ERCOT, NYISO). Third-party aggregator feeds are not used.Interconnection queue data: MISO, ERCOT, and NYISO, each reproduced from its own published queue under that operator’s terms.
Provider: Individual utilities, where published
Per-utility terms, frequently unspecified. Ingested only behind a per-utility allowlist of cleared sources.A note on redistribution
Rackflow serves values derived from these sources, a tier, a score, a nearest-voltage distance, not the raw datasets themselves. Where a license requires attribution, the string above is the one to reproduce. Where a source is public domain, attribution is offered as good practice. Sources with restrictive or unverified terms are ingested only after their terms are cleared, and aggregator feeds whose compiled output cannot be redistributed are never used.