Idaho Power (IPCO)
Idaho Power (IPCO) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 135 power plants with 5.3 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 2.1 GW. Its peak load is 3,765 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 3,765 MW
Capacity by fuel
135 power plants with 5.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 2.1 GW from 51 plants (41%)
- Solar: 906 MW from 26 plants (17%)
- Natural gas: 779 MW from 5 plants (15%)
- Wind: 715 MW from 33 plants (14%)
- Battery storage: 659 MW from 10 plants (13%)
- Biomass: 22 MW from 7 plants (under 1%)
- Geothermal: 18 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Other: 15 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Oil: 5 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Brownlee: Hydro, 702 MW, Idaho
- Hells Canyon: Hydro, 453 MW, Oregon
- Langley Gulch Power Plant: Natural gas, 303 MW, Idaho
- Evander Andrews Power Complex: Natural gas, 272 MW, Idaho
- Oxbow (OR): Hydro, 216 MW, Oregon
- Matrix Pleasant Valley: Solar, 200 MW, Idaho
- Bennett Mountain: Natural gas, 185 MW, Idaho
- Hemmingway BESS: Battery storage, 166 MW, Idaho
- Boise Bench BESS: Battery storage, 150 MW, Idaho
- Kuna BESS: Battery storage, 150 MW, Idaho
Planned and under construction
2 generators planned, under construction or testing, 600 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 600 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