Pacificorp - West (PACW)
Pacificorp - West (PACW) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 113 power plants with 2.6 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 1 GW. Its peak load is 3,789 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 3,789 MW
Capacity by fuel
113 power plants with 2.6 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 1 GW from 38 plants (39%)
- Solar: 498 MW from 47 plants (19%)
- Wind: 488 MW from 17 plants (19%)
- Natural gas: 464 MW from 1 plant (18%)
- Biomass: 133 MW from 9 plants (5%)
- Geothermal: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Hermiston Generating Plant: Natural gas, 464 MW, Oregon
- Swift 1: Hydro, 264 MW, Washington
- Marengo Wind Plant: Wind, 234 MW, Washington
- Yale: Hydro, 164 MW, Washington
- Merwin: Hydro, 151 MW, Washington
- Vansycle II Wind Energy Center: Wind, 102 MW, Oregon
- Millican Solar Energy LLC: Solar, 71 MW, Oregon
- Swift 2: Hydro, 65 MW, Washington
- Solar Star Oregon II: Solar, 56 MW, Oregon
- Skysol: Solar, 55 MW, Oregon
Planned and under construction
6 generators planned, under construction or testing, 144 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 142 MW
- Battery storage: 2 MW
States and provinces
- Oregon: 97 plants
- California: 8 plants
- Washington: 8 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