Bonneville Power Administration (BPAT)
Bonneville Power Administration (BPAT) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 132 power plants with 30.3 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 22.1 GW. Its peak load is 10,243 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 10,243 MW
Capacity by fuel
132 power plants with 30.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 22.1 GW from 55 plants (73%)
- Wind: 3.9 GW from 30 plants (13%)
- Natural gas: 1.9 GW from 7 plants (6%)
- Nuclear: 1.2 GW from 1 plant (4%)
- Coal: 670 MW from 1 plant (2%)
- Solar: 418 MW from 16 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 298 MW from 20 plants (1%)
- Geothermal: 11 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Grand Coulee: Hydro, 7.1 GW, Washington
- Chief Joseph: Hydro, 2.5 GW, Washington
- John Day: Hydro, 2.1 GW, Oregon
- The Dalles: Hydro, 1.8 GW, Oregon
- Bonneville: Hydro, 1.2 GW, Oregon
- Columbia Generating Station: Nuclear, 1.2 GW, Washington
- Priest Rapids: Hydro, 1 GW, Washington
- McNary: Hydro, 967 MW, Oregon
- Little Goose: Hydro, 810 MW, Washington
- Lower Monumental: Hydro, 810 MW, Washington
Planned and under construction
16 generators planned, under construction or testing, 9.4 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 8.7 GW
- Wind: 600 MW
- Battery storage: 25 MW
States and provinces
- Oregon: 61 plants
- Washington: 52 plants
- Idaho: 13 plants
- Montana: 4 plants
- Wyoming: 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