Avista Corporation (AVA)
Avista Corporation (AVA) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 29 power plants with 2.2 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 1.3 GW. Its peak load is 2,245 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 2,245 MW
Capacity by fuel
29 power plants with 2.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 1.3 GW from 14 plants (58%)
- Natural gas: 415 MW from 5 plants (19%)
- Wind: 349 MW from 3 plants (16%)
- Biomass: 142 MW from 5 plants (6%)
- Solar: 19 MW from 1 plant (1%)
- Oil: 1 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Noxon Rapids: Hydro, 581 MW, Montana
- Cabinet Gorge: Hydro, 255 MW, Idaho
- Rathdrum Power LLC: Natural gas, 210 MW, Idaho
- Rattlesnake Flat: Wind, 144 MW, Washington
- Rathdrum: Natural gas, 132 MW, Idaho
- Palouse: Wind, 105 MW, Washington
- Clearwater Wind III: Wind, 100 MW, Montana
- Summer Falls Power Plant: Hydro, 92 MW, Washington
- Box Canyon: Hydro, 90 MW, Washington
- Long Lake: Hydro, 90 MW, Washington
Planned and under construction
1 generator planned, under construction or testing, 126 MW in all, not counted above.
- Wind: 126 MW
States and provinces
- Washington: 20 plants
- Idaho: 7 plants
- Montana: 2 plants
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