catalyst-cooperative / pudl

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project provides analysis-ready energy system data to climate advocates, researchers, policymakers, and journalists.
https://catalyst.coop/pudl
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Fix record_id_eia: replace unit ids with generator ids #1105

Open aesharpe opened 2 years ago

aesharpe commented 2 years ago

Right now the record_id_eia (primarily used in the rmi_eia_ferc repo) is created using the unit_id_pudl, a stable but inherently non-static value. We want to replace this with generator_id so that we don't have to worry about changing unit ids in the future.

The plan:

aesharpe commented 1 year ago

@cmgosnell did we fix this?