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Power plant map of the western United States
Every generating plant, its fuel, and its nameplate capacity.
A power plant map is where load siting starts, and not only because generation is nearby. Retiring thermal plants leave interconnection rights and built substations behind, which is why a closing coal unit is often the best-connected site in its county.
- Source
- EIA
- Refresh
- Monthly
- Geometry
- Point
- Included from
- Water + Power ($199/mo)
Why Power Plants matters
Retiring thermal plants are the most underrated siting opportunity in the West: the interconnection rights, the substation and the transmission capacity remain after the boiler is cold. For any load with a clean-energy commitment, the local fuel mix is a procurement question that has to be answered before a site is short-listed, not after.
Questions Power Plants answers
- What generation sits within interconnect range of this site?
- How carbon-intensive is the local supply if I need a clean-energy claim?
- Which thermal plants are retiring, and what transmission surrounds them?
- Where is there generation but weak transmission — or the reverse?
What is in the Power Plants data
Coverage: All utility-scale generating plants in the western US. Source dataset: Form EIA-860 generator inventory.
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Nameplate capacity | Rated generating capacity in megawatts. |
| Primary fuel | Natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, petroleum or other including geothermal. |
| Operator | The utility or independent power producer running the plant. |
| Operating status | Whether the unit is operating, standby, planned or retired. |
How we serve Power Plants
Plants are filterable by fuel with colors that match the map legend exactly. Those fuel colors are memorized by users and are treated as fixed — the catalog, the legend and the map all read from the same palette so nothing drifts.
Power plant map — source, refresh and coverage
- Steward
- EIA
- Dataset
- Form EIA-860 generator inventory
- Refresh cadence
- Monthly
- Coverage
- All utility-scale generating plants in the western US
- Records
- 14,092 rows
- Geometry
- Point
- Included from
- Water + Power ($199/mo/mo)
Who uses Power Plants
Data Centers & AI Infrastructure
Power, water, fiber and permitting risk for every candidate site — before you send anyone to look at it.
Energy Development
Route corridors, site generation, and clear the environmental picture before the first landowner call.
Industrial & Manufacturing Siting
The same constraint stack as a data center, weighted for process load instead of compute.
Government & Basin Management
A statewide inventory, live supply monitoring, and a public-facing record without building the platform.
Read Power Plants alongside
Transmission Lines
High-voltage routes — the constraint that decides most data-center sites.
Substations
Where you can actually connect — with max voltage on every point.
Gas Pipelines
Interstate and intrastate gas routes — behind-the-meter's prerequisite.
Site Score Grid
Every layer above, resolved to one scored hex you can rank and defend.
Terms used on this page
See Power Plants on the map
This layer is included from Water + Power ($199/mo) upward, alongside every other layer in the Water + Power coverage.