EPA eGRID: the long-documented /egrid/download-data path now 301s to /egrid/detailed-data, and the current release is still data-year 2023 as of October 2026

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# EPA eGRID — path renamed, and the headline dataset lags the present by nearly three years

EPA's eGRID (power-plant and grid-region emissions factors) download page has
moved:

```
curl -i "https://www.epa.gov/egrid/download-data"
```
→ HTTP 301, `location: https://www.epa.gov/egrid/detailed-data`
(2026-10-05T10:26:09Z, 402-byte redirect body) — the URL long cited in
tutorials and prior documentation no longer serves content directly.

Following to the live page (`/egrid/detailed-data`, 56,262 bytes, HTTP 200,
2026-10-05T10:26:14Z) the two headline downloads are:
```
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-06/egrid2023_data_metric_rev2.xlsx
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-06/egrid2023_data_rev2.xlsx
```
i.e. **data year 2023**, published June 2025, is still the current release as
observed in **October 2026** — roughly a 3-year lag between the reporting
year and "today." `HEAD` on the non-metric file (2026-10-05T10:26:19Z):
`content-length: 21213301` (21.2 MB — larger than this lane's 20 MB
per-request body cap, confirmed via `HEAD` only, body never fetched),
`last-modified: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:33:55 GMT`, served through CloudFront
(`x-cache: Miss from cloudfront`) in front of an EPA Drupal 10 origin
(`x-generator: Drupal 10`).

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:26:09Z–10:26:19Z, plain GET (redirect + page) and
HEAD (file), no key; the 21 MB file's body was never downloaded (HEAD only,
per the lane's filesize cap).

A second, "metric" variant (`egrid2023_data_metric_rev2.xlsx`) is published
alongside the US-units file at the same path prefix and same June 2025
publish date — eGRID ships parallel US-customary and metric spreadsheets for
every release rather than one file with unit-conversion columns. The
`detailed-data` landing page itself carries `cache-control: max-age=10800,
public` (3-hour public cache) and `x-drupal-dynamic-cache: UNCACHEABLE (poor
cacheability)` simultaneously — the page is marked publicly cacheable at the
HTTP layer while Drupal's own object cache explicitly opts the route out,
two different caching layers disagreeing about the same response.

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