PacifiCorp East (PACE)
PacifiCorp East (PACE) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 178 power plants with 18.7 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 4.9 GW. Its peak load is 9,007 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 9,007 MW
Capacity by fuel
178 power plants with 18.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 4.9 GW from 27 plants (26%)
- Coal: 4.5 GW from 9 plants (24%)
- Wind: 4.5 GW from 31 plants (24%)
- Solar: 3.8 GW from 52 plants (20%)
- Battery storage: 520 MW from 5 plants (3%)
- Hydro: 259 MW from 42 plants (1%)
- Geothermal: 71 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Other: 58 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Oil: 23 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 12 MW from 4 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Jim Bridger: Natural gas, 2.1 GW, Wyoming
- Hunter: Coal, 1.4 GW, Utah
- Lake Side Power Plant: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, Utah
- Huntington: Coal, 909 MW, Utah
- Green River Energy Center - Hybrid: Solar, 800 MW, Utah
- Dave Johnston: Coal, 745 MW, Wyoming
- Naughton: Coal, 604 MW, Wyoming
- Rock Creek Wind: Wind, 590 MW, Wyoming
- Faraday Solar: Solar, 525 MW, Utah
- Currant Creek: Natural gas, 524 MW, Utah
Planned and under construction
10 generators planned, under construction or testing, 2 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 811 MW
- Battery storage: 447 MW
- Wind: 365 MW
- Nuclear: 342 MW
- Natural gas: 8 MW
- Geothermal: 1 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