Public Service Co. of Colorado (PSCO)
Public Service Co. of Colorado (PSCO) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 200 power plants with 15.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 6.4 GW. Its peak load is 8,501 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 8,501 MW
Capacity by fuel
200 power plants with 15.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 6.4 GW from 26 plants (41%)
- Wind: 5.2 GW from 27 plants (33%)
- Solar: 3.3 GW from 123 plants (21%)
- Coal: 441 MW from 1 plant (3%)
- Pumped storage: 340 MW from 1 plant (2%)
- Battery storage: 116 MW from 3 plants (1%)
- Hydro: 57 MW from 15 plants (under 1%)
- Oil: 20 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 13 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Fort St Vrain: Natural gas, 1 GW, Colorado
- Cherokee: Natural gas, 886 MW, Colorado
- Rawhide: Natural gas, 668 MW, Colorado
- Rush Creek Wind: Wind, 600 MW, Colorado
- Rocky Mountain Energy Center: Natural gas, 592 MW, Colorado
- Rocky Mountain Solar: Solar, 525 MW, Colorado
- Pawnee: Natural gas, 505 MW, Colorado
- Dusty Rose Wind: Wind, 502 MW, Colorado
- Cheyenne Ridge Wind Farm: Wind, 498 MW, Colorado
- Neptune Energy Center Hybrid: Solar, 450 MW, Colorado
Planned and under construction
32 generators planned, under construction or testing, 4.9 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 2.1 GW
- Battery storage: 1.1 GW
- Wind: 1 GW
- Natural gas: 579 MW
States and provinces
- Colorado: 200 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