Balancing Authority Of Northern California (BANC)
Balancing Authority Of Northern California (BANC) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 82 power plants with 5.5 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 2.6 GW. Its peak load is 4,436 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 4,436 MW
Capacity by fuel
82 power plants with 5.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 2.6 GW from 16 plants (48%)
- Natural gas: 2.5 GW from 14 plants (45%)
- Solar: 387 MW from 50 plants (7%)
- Biomass: 21 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Shasta: Hydro, 714 MW, California
- Cosumnes Power Plant: Natural gas, 545 MW, California
- Sutter Energy Center: Natural gas, 528 MW, California
- New Melones: Hydro, 382 MW, California
- White Rock/Slab Creek: Hydro, 244 MW, California
- Folsom: Hydro, 215 MW, California
- Roseville Energy Park: Natural gas, 212 MW, California
- Spring Creek: Hydro, 180 MW, California
- Campbell Power Plant: Natural gas, 178 MW, California
- Judge F Carr: Hydro, 177 MW, California
Planned and under construction
4 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.1 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 916 MW
- Battery storage: 160 MW
States and provinces
- California: 82 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