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Electric Power Plants, 1996
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- Electric Power Plants, 1996
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ArcAtlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, Calif.
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_1996_world_powerp.zip
- Abstract
- Electric Power Plants is a point theme representing electric power plants worldwide. Attribute information includes the name of the location, the amount of power that is produced the type of electricity production and the year operation began.
- Purpose
- For educational, non-commercial purposes. This dataset is appropriate for use in a GIS.
- Supplemental Information
- Electric power generation is the leading type of power generation in the world as a whole. Electric power plants are major enterprises and are the most significant elements of electric power generation. They provide the economy with electric power and, in some cases, heating power. Power plants are classified according to the primary sources of energy used for power generation. The present-day power industry is based on thermoelectric, hydroelectric, and nuclear power, and these are the types shown on the maps in this atlas. Thermoelectricity is produced using the energy released by burning mineral and organic fuel. Hydroelectricity is generated by converting the mechanical energy of water flow into electricity by turning an electric generator shaft with hydraulic turbines. Nuclear electricity is produced by converting the heat generated in a nuclear reactor to steam, which turns a turbo-generator shaft. Other types of power plants are located sporadically. They use solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy. Power plants in the economically well-developed countries are combined into automatically and centrally controlled electric power systems. They provide electric power for various kinds of consumers.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 1996
- Bounding Box
- West
- -180
- East
- 180
- North
- 85
- South
- -85
- ISO Topic Category
- utilitiesCommunications
- Theme Keyword
- Electric plants
- Power plants
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Earth (6295630)
- Earth
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1996
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- ESRI
- Delivery Point
- 380 New York Street
- City
- Redlands
- State
- California
- Postal Code
- 92373-8100
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 909-793-2853
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 909-793-5953
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@esri.com
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- Entity point
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 4203
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_Clarke_1866
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- electric
- Entity Type Definition
- Electric Power plants
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- AREA
- Area
- PERIMETER
- Perimeter
- EUENGDD_
- Europe
- EUENGDD_ID
- Europe
- TYPE
- The type of electricity production station
- POWER
- The amount of energy produced in thousands of killowatt-hours
- YEAR
- The year operation began, where this information was available.
- NAME
- The name of the place where the station is located
- DIAK_CDE
- Code for any diacritical marks in the name
- FIPS_CNTRY
- country code
- POLYGONID
- ID number
- SCALE
- Scale
- ANGLE
- Angle
- NAENGDD_
- North America
- NAENGDD_ID
- North America
- SAENGDD_
- South America
- SAENGDD_ID
- South America
- AUENGDD_
- Australia
- AUENGDD_ID
- Australia
- ASENGDD_
- Asia
- ASENGDD_ID
- Asia
- AFENGDD_
- Africa
- AFENGDD_ID
- Africa
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090630
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998