Retail Geographies

Electric_Retail_Service_Territories.zip. A Shapefile of rural cooperatives and municipal utilities downloaded from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) open data portal, hosted by the Geospatial Management Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The data, which may also be viewed on an alternative web map, was last published on December 9, 2022, and utilizes multiple data sources from different years (e.g., state GIS portals, Energy Information Administration Tiger/Line Shapefiles). Available for direct download here.

hinton_municipal_iowa.zip. A Shapefile for Hinton, Iowa, which was incorrectly referenced within the file Electric_Retail_Service_Territories.zip.

municipal_utility_name_matches.csv. A CSV file that maps municipal utility names provided by the Electric_Retail_Service_Territories.zip file to corrected names provided by Climate Cabinet in utility name - city name - Sheet1.csv. Created through a combination of fuzzy string matching scripts and manual review. Generated by UChicago Data Science Institute staff members.

utility name - city name - Sheet1.csv. A CSV file of expected municipal utility names with their corresponding cities and states. Provided by Climate Cabinet.