Associated Electric Cooperative (AECI)
Associated Electric Cooperative (AECI) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 33 power plants with 5.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 2.4 GW. Its peak load is 5,284 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 5,284 MW
Capacity by fuel
33 power plants with 5.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 2.4 GW from 10 plants (41%)
- Coal: 2.3 GW from 2 plants (39%)
- Wind: 959 MW from 8 plants (16%)
- Oil: 112 MW from 9 plants (2%)
- Pumped storage: 58 MW from 1 plant (1%)
- Biomass: 4 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Hydro: 3 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Solar: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- New Madrid: Coal, 1.2 GW, Missouri
- Thomas Hill: Coal, 1.1 GW, Missouri
- Chouteau: Natural gas, 898 MW, Oklahoma
- Dell Power Station: Natural gas, 478 MW, Arkansas
- St Francis Energy Facility: Natural gas, 478 MW, Missouri
- Holden: Natural gas, 261 MW, Missouri
- Clear Creek Wind: Wind, 242 MW, Missouri
- White Cloud Wind Project, LLC: Wind, 237 MW, Missouri
- Nodaway: Natural gas, 171 MW, Missouri
- Lost Creek Wind Energy Facility: Wind, 168 MW, Missouri
Planned and under construction
3 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.1 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 823 MW
- Wind: 247 MW
States and provinces
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain