BC Hydro (BCHA)
BC Hydro (BCHA) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 174 power plants with 19.7 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 16.5 GW.
Capacity by fuel
174 power plants with 19.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 16.5 GW from 122 plants (84%)
- Natural gas: 1.3 GW from 3 plants (7%)
- Biomass: 1.1 GW from 34 plants (5%)
- Wind: 749 MW from 10 plants (4%)
- Other: 17 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Solar: 6 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Mica: Hydro, 2.7 GW, British Columbia
- G.M. Shrum: Hydro, 2.7 GW, British Columbia
- Revelstoke: Hydro, 2.5 GW, British Columbia
- Site C Powerhouse: Hydro, 1.1 GW, British Columbia
- Burrard: Natural gas, 950 MW, British Columbia
- Kemano: Hydro, 896 MW, British Columbia
- Seven Mile: Hydro, 805 MW, British Columbia
- Peace Canyon: Hydro, 694 MW, British Columbia
- Kootenay Canal: Hydro, 570 MW, British Columbia
- Waneta: Hydro, 493 MW, British Columbia
States and provinces
- British Columbia: 174 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