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    • Manufacturing Thermal Energy Use in 2014

    Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

    The first data set estimates thermal energy use (i.e., fuels combusted for process heating, boilers, and combined heat and power/cogeneration) by end use, temperature, county, and facility employment size class for all U.S. manufacturing industries in 2014. The estimation methodology builds off of prior estimates of industrial energy use (https://dx.doi.org/10.7799/1481899, https://dx.doi.org/10.7799/1461488). The second data set estimates hourly heat load (as a fraction of annual energy used for heat) using hourly observations of industrial boiler and combined heat and power/cogeneration heat load from EPA's Air Markets Program Data, weekly operating hours in 2014 from Census Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization, and annual production hours reported by assessments conducted by Industrial Assessment Centers. ERRATA: Representative heat load shapes were revised based on an updated estimation methodology. Hourly heat load relative to peak load is estimated by NAICS code, employment size class, month, day of week (Monday == 0) for a range of average weekly operating hours for boilers and process heating. The high and low operating hours values represent the 95% confidence interval of average weekly operating hours.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8192
    Data First Published 2019-09-27T14:01:57Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-12T18:10:31Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/118
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Program Code 019:000, 019:008
    Projectnumber EE0034454
    Projecttitle Solar for Industrial Process heat
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