Coal Power Plants In Us Map
This map shows every power plant in the united states.
Coal power plants in us map. Every year the united states generates 4 000 million mwh of electricity from utility scale sources. Given the limited number of potentially impacted facilities limited availability of input data to inform the modeling and limited connection to the continental grid epa did not model the impacts of the rule beyond the contiguous u s. This page was last edited on 15 january 2020 at 14 39. The interactive timeline pulls from the global coal plant tracker s latest data and features around 10 000 retired operating and planned coal units totaling close to 3 000 gigawatts gw of capacity across 95 countries.
The following page lists all coal fired power stations including lignite fired that are 3 000 mw or larger current net capacity which are currently operational or under construction. Power plants likely covered by the toxics rule outside the contiguous u s. As many coal fired power plants designed for baseload service are asked to cycle unforeseen stresses have been introduced reducing ash agglomeration in jea s cfb boilers top plants. While the majority comes from fossil fuels like natural gas 32 1 and coal 29 9 there are also many other minor sources that feed into the grid ranging from biomass to geothermal.
Some 74 of us coal plants have higher operating costs than the price of building new renewables nearby according to march 2019 analysis from energy innovation a thinktank. The eu and uk are also seeing a wave of coal retirements. Along with canada european countries. If a station also has units which do not burn coal only coal fired capacity is listed.
Petroleum prices supply and demand information from the energy information administration eia official energy statistics from the u s. Name state location capacity annual generation owner fuel type retirement ref. Sourcewatch is a project of the center for media and democracy cmd. Those power stations that are smaller than 3 000 mw and those that are only at a planning proposal stage may be found in regional lists listed at the end of the page.
Today s data visualization from carbon brief maps the changing number of global coal power plants operating between 2000 and 2018. Plant bowen the third largest coal fired power station in the united states. The following page lists all coal fired power stations including lignite fired that are 3 000 mw or larger current net capacity which are currently operational or under construction. If a station also has units which do not burn coal only coal fired capacity is listed.
Ipm modeling did not include generation outside the contiguous u s where epa is aware of only two facilities that would be subject to the coal fired requirements of the final rule. Coal fuel oil. Content is available under creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike. Given plans to phase out coal the region s fleet is set to fall below 50gw to a quarter of its capacity in 2000 as the slider below shows.
See carbon brief s earlier map of all the power plants in the us for more.