Los Angeles DWP (LDWP)
Los Angeles DWP (LDWP) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 94 power plants with 9.3 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 5.1 GW. Its peak load is 6,837 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 6,837 MW
Capacity by fuel
94 power plants with 9.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 5.1 GW from 18 plants (55%)
- Solar: 1.7 GW from 55 plants (18%)
- Pumped storage: 1.7 GW from 1 plant (18%)
- Wind: 441 MW from 3 plants (5%)
- Hydro: 272 MW from 13 plants (3%)
- Other: 28 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Biomass: 22 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 22 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Castaic: Pumped storage, 1.7 GW, California
- Haynes: Natural gas, 1.6 GW, California
- Intermountain Power Project: Natural gas, 940 MW, Utah
- Scattergood: Natural gas, 776 MW, California
- Valley (CA): Natural gas, 563 MW, California
- Harbor: Natural gas, 428 MW, California
- Eland Solar & Storage Center, Phase 1 Hy: Solar, 350 MW, California
- Eland Solar & Storage Center, Phase 2 Hy: Solar, 350 MW, California
- Magnolia Power Project: Natural gas, 301 MW, California
- Copper Mountain Solar 3: Solar, 255 MW, Nevada
Planned and under construction
11 generators planned, under construction or testing, 3.5 GW in all, not counted above.
- Pumped storage: 2 GW
- Solar: 1.4 GW
- Geothermal: 90 MW
- Biomass: 11 MW
States and provinces
- California: 90 plants
- Utah: 3 plants
- Nevada: 1 plant
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