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  "LICENCE IS PER DATASET, NOT PER PUBLISHER, and is only as good as our last check. Where an entry says the licence is unverified, treat it as all rights reserved. A dataset appearing here is not permission to use it, and none of this is legal advice.",
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  "name": "US Electric Generator Inventory (EIA-860M)",
  "description": "Monthly inventory of US electric generators \u2014 operating, planned, retired and cancelled \u2014 reported by plant operators to the Energy Information Administration. Includes battery storage with nameplate power and, for some units, energy capacity in MWh. It is operator-reported inventory, not verified evidence, and it is preliminary: figures are revised in later editions.\n",
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