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  • Combustion Clean firm Wind & solar Storage Bioenergy Loads Unspecified fuel
  • Planned Building Running
  • Runs a lot → Rarely runs Retired

Dashed: MW not stated. A bar: stage not stated. Sizes from regional zoom.

Combustion: gas, coal, oil. Clean firm: nuclear, hydro. Other: the rest.

Fainter: runs less than US plants of the same technology, last 12 months or latest full year (EIA).

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What is counted

Planned

Projects announced, filed, studied, permitted or contracted.

Sources load with the counts.
Under construction

Projects under construction.

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Operating

Power plants in service.

Sources load with the counts.
Idling or retired

Plants retiring, on standby, out of service or retired; each row says which. Retired plants need the Status filter when no stage is chosen.

Sources load with the counts.

Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL · Copyright and license
Fallback outline: Natural Earth · US Census Bureau (public domain)

Projects: ERCOT · CAISO · NYISO · EIA-860M · NESO · Virginia DEQ · EPA ICIS-Air · EPA Class VI · Plants: EIA-860M
Supported by National Energy SO Open Data

Facilities outside the US: Global Energy Monitor, GIPT (CC BY 4.0).

US energy projects and power plants, from first filing to retirement.

Public records, free to use. Every record links to its source.

What is counted

  • Counts follow the map: move it or pick a state.
  • Planned and Construction: every project a register still lists.
  • Withdrawn and cancelled: not counted; the Projects list shows them.
  • Operating and Idling or retired: plants, from EIA-860M (US) and GEM’s GIPT.
  • No stage chosen: all stages together, retired plants left out.
  • Built projects are drawn among the plants, never counted twice.
  • Not on this map: projects placed only by county or state, or with the site withheld by license.
  • They are counted, not drawn, once the view holds that whole area.
  • Data center MW is demand, never added to generation.

Status words · Methodology

Generation

Net generation ÷ (MW × hours), last 12 months or latest full year (EIA-923). US plants only.

Under Color: Underused, the least-run plants for their technology are darkest.

Independent: no utility, co-op or public power owner or operator on record (EIA-860). Plants only.

Pipelines and power lines

Gas pipelines and power lines, with gas processing and storage, LNG terminals, ethanol and renewable gas plants.

Its sources are read when this opens.

Sources and licenses · Reuse conditions

Power prices at hubs

The last 30 days' average power price at each trading hub and zone.

Its sources are read when this opens.

Sources and licenses · Reuse conditions