LG&E and KU (LGEE)
LG&E and KU (LGEE) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 16 power plants with 7.9 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 5.3 GW. Its peak load is 6,938 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 6,938 MW
Capacity by fuel
16 power plants with 7.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 5.3 GW from 3 plants (66%)
- Natural gas: 2.3 GW from 5 plants (29%)
- Solar: 191 MW from 4 plants (2%)
- Hydro: 132 MW from 2 plants (2%)
- Oil: 11 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Biomass: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Trimble County: Coal, 2.2 GW, Kentucky
- Ghent: Coal, 1.9 GW, Kentucky
- E W Brown: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, Kentucky
- Mill Creek (KY): Coal, 1.2 GW, Kentucky
- Cane Run: Natural gas, 691 MW, Kentucky
- Paddys Run: Natural gas, 170 MW, Kentucky
- PPS Power Plant No 1: Natural gas, 110 MW, Kentucky
- Ohio Falls: Hydro, 101 MW, Kentucky
- Bluebird Solar LLC: Solar, 100 MW, Kentucky
- Ashwood Solar I: Solar, 86 MW, Kentucky
Planned and under construction
7 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.4 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 720 MW
- Solar: 540 MW
- Battery storage: 125 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