GoGridPulse
Data Sources and Methodology
Last reviewed October 5, 2026
GoGridPulse does not create or estimate any of its records. Every record on the map comes from a public filing, license list, or permit database published by a government agency, and links back to that source. This page lists each source, who publishes it, how we collect it, and how often it is refreshed, so you can judge for yourself how far to trust any given record.
Sources by data layer
Drilling permits
| State | Publisher and dataset | How we collect it | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | Railroad Commission of Texas — Drilling Permits Pending Approval, with wellbore and surface-location files | Automated download of the Commission's published data files, joined into one record per permit | Twice daily (the Commission updates its own file twice daily) |
| New Mexico | Oil Conservation Division, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department — public well and permit data service | Automated query of the Division's public data service | Twice daily |
| Nevada | Nevada Division of Minerals — Oil and Gas Permits list and the permit applications it links | Hand-maintained: Nevada publishes only a short list of PDF permits (six in 2021–2026), so each permit's own application document is read directly and its surveyed coordinates converted to latitude and longitude | Rechecked periodically |
Radioactive materials licensing
| State | Publisher and dataset | How we collect it | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — pending radioactive material license applications | Hand-checked: the agency publishes a short table with no data feed, and locations are researched from independent public project records | Rechecked periodically |
| New York | New York State Department of Health — Radioactive Materials Licensees open dataset | Automated read of the agency's open-data API; map locations come from the licensee's mailing address, which is not always the physical facility | Twice daily (the dataset is updated on the agency's own schedule) |
| New Mexico | New Mexico Environment Department, Radiation Control Bureau — public notices of radioactive materials licensing actions | Automated read of the Bureau's public notices table; street addresses are geocoded where one is given | Twice daily |
| North Dakota | North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality — Radiation Control Program public notices | Hand-maintained: the state has roughly 60 licenses in total and posts notices only occasionally | Rechecked periodically |
| Utah | Utah Department of Environmental Quality — EQDocs public archive, Radiation Control radioactive materials licensing folders | Automated read of the archive's public folder listing, which names each licensee and license number. The archive publishes no address, date, or status, so none is shown | Twice daily |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection — eFACTS authorization search, Radiation Protection program | Automated query of the public eFACTS search. The search results include no facility address, so these records appear in the list and totals but not as map pins | Twice daily |
Power generation and backup infrastructure
| State | Publisher and dataset | How we collect it | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — air permits for generators, turbines, and other power equipment | Automated query of the agency's public air-permit search | Twice daily |
| Nevada | Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Pollution Control — public air-permit document search | Hand-verified list of power plants and geothermal facilities: each permit document was opened to confirm it is an issued operating permit that covers generation equipment, and its printed surveyed coordinates were used for the map location | Rechecked periodically |
How records are labeled
Every record carries its source, a status, a county where the source gives one, and a map location only when one can be established honestly. Each layer uses the agency's own meaning for a status, shown in plainer language. For drilling permits, New leads means an application is filed and awaiting approval, and Activity starting means the permit has been issued. For radioactive materials, a record may be a pending application, an issued license, an active licensee, or a terminated license, depending on what the source publishes. For power generation, a permit is pending, effective, or cancelled.
Map locations
Where a source publishes coordinates, we use them. Where it publishes only an address, we convert it to a location and keep the record unmapped if the address cannot be matched with confidence. We never place a pin from a guess, because a wrong pin is worse than no pin. Records without a location still count in the totals and appear in the list.
Why some states have no radioactive materials data
In October 2026 we reviewed the radiation-control program of every U.S. state and the District of Columbia to find public lists of radioactive materials licenses or applications. Most states publish nothing usable: many describe their program on a web page and take applications by mail or email, and several run public license-search tools that explicitly exclude radioactive materials. The six states above are the ones that publish real, public license or application records today. Iowa's licensing portal appears to include radioactive materials, but its search is protected by a CAPTCHA that prevents automated reading, so it is not used. We are also evaluating the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's monthly licensing-actions logs, which cover federal agencies and national manufacturing and distribution licenses. We add a state only after confirming its source against real data.
Accuracy and limits
Automated sources are refreshed twice a day with no manual editing. Hand-maintained lists are rechecked against the agency's own page and documents on a regular basis and say so plainly rather than being presented as continuously live. Agencies correct, withdraw, and reclassify filings, so a record here may lag the agency's own system. GoGridPulse is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any of the agencies listed. It is a convenience layer for exploring public data, not a system of record. Confirm anything decision-critical with the source agency.
Spotted an error?
If a record looks wrong, is missing a location you can verify, or you know of another public source we should add, please contact us with a link to the record or the agency page. Corrections are how the data gets better.