---
id: "gppd_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["energy", "environment"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gppd_id"
---

# Global Power Plant Database ID (gppd_idnr) (`gppd_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a power plant in the Global Power Plant Database of the World Resources Institute (WRI), column gppd_idnr. It is a letter prefix and a seven-digit number. The prefix is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country for plants from a national data source (USA, GBR, BRA, IND and others), WRI or WKS (Wiki-Solar) for plants from other sources, and the five-letter GEODB for plants from the Global Energy Observatory. US ids embed the EIA plant code (USA0006008 for plant 6008). WRI no longer updates the database; the last version is 1.3.0.

- Parent datatype: `powerplantid`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Energy (electricity, gas, metering) (energy), Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{3}(?:[A-Z]{2})?\d{7}$
```

## Examples

- `USA0006008` — Palo Verde nuclear power plant, United States; Global Power Plant Database 1.3.0
- `WRI1000452` — Three Gorges Dam, China; Global Power Plant Database 1.3.0
- `GBR0000174` — Drax power station, United Kingdom; Global Power Plant Database 1.3.0
- `GEODB0040538` — Kajaki Hydroelectric Power Plant, Afghanistan; Global Power Plant Database 1.3.0
- `USA6008` (invalid example) — Number not padded to seven digits

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор Global Power Plant Database (gppd_idnr): Идентификатор электростанции в глобальной базе данных электростанций Института мировых ресурсов (WRI) — буквенный префикс (код страны ISO alpha-3 или код источника) и семь цифр.

## Sources

- doc: <https://github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database>
- doc: <https://datasets.wri.org/datasets/global-power-plant-database>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/gppd_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/gppd_id.yaml>