Portland General Electric Company (PGE)
Portland General Electric Company (PGE) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 103 power plants with 3.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.8 GW. Its peak load is 3,852 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 3,852 MW
Capacity by fuel
103 power plants with 3.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.8 GW from 5 plants (46%)
- Wind: 717 MW from 2 plants (18%)
- Hydro: 696 MW from 11 plants (18%)
- Battery storage: 492 MW from 4 plants (13%)
- Solar: 207 MW from 79 plants (5%)
- Biomass: 3 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Beaver: Natural gas, 493 MW, Oregon
- Biglow Canyon Wind Farm: Wind, 450 MW, Oregon
- Carty Generating Station: Natural gas, 416 MW, Oregon
- Port Westward: Natural gas, 392 MW, Oregon
- Round Butte: Hydro, 353 MW, Oregon
- Tucannon River Wind Farm: Wind, 267 MW, Washington
- Coyote Springs: Natural gas, 244 MW, Oregon
- Port Westward Unit 2: Natural gas, 224 MW, Oregon
- Seaside BESS: Battery storage, 200 MW, Oregon
- Sundial (Troutdale) BESS: Battery storage, 200 MW, Oregon
Planned and under construction
3 generators planned, under construction or testing, 944 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 744 MW
- Battery storage: 200 MW
States and provinces
- Oregon: 102 plants
- Washington: 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