Power plants and the grid in Alberta
Alberta has 148 power plants with 20.2 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 6.4 GW. The map shows 17 data centers in Alberta.
Capacity by fuel
148 power plants with 20.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 6.4 GW from 6 plants (32%)
- Natural gas: 5.7 GW from 22 plants (28%)
- Wind: 5.1 GW from 45 plants (25%)
- Solar: 1.5 GW from 38 plants (8%)
- Hydro: 934 MW from 23 plants (5%)
- Biomass: 357 MW from 13 plants (2%)
- Oil: 170 MW from 1 plant (1%)
Largest plants
- Sundance: Coal, 2.1 GW
- Genesee: Coal, 1.4 GW
- Keephills: Coal, 1.3 GW
- Cascade Power Project: Natural gas, 900 MW
- Shepard: Natural gas, 873 MW
- Sheerness: Coal, 816 MW
- Battle River: Coal, 689 MW
- Joffre: Natural gas, 480 MW
- Buffalo Plains Wind Farm: Wind, 466 MW
- Travers Solar: Solar, 465 MW
Largest plants near Calgary
- Shepard: Natural gas, 873 MW, 16 km away
- Calgary Energy Centre: Natural gas, 300 MW, 17 km away
- Crossfield Energy Centre: Natural gas, 120 MW, 39 km away
- Balzac: Natural gas, 120 MW, 18 km away
- Sollair Energy Project: Solar, 75 MW, 32 km away
Largest plants near Edmonton
- Clover Bar: Natural gas, 250 MW, 10 km away
- Scotford (Shell): Natural gas, 170 MW, 38 km away
- Fort Saskatchewan (TransAlta): Natural gas, 118 MW, 30 km away
- kīsikāw pīsim Solar Farm: Solar, 14 MW, 12 km away
- Clover Bar LFG: Biomass, 5 MW, 12 km away
Grid operators
- AESO (ISO or system operator)
Data centers
17 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Equinix (2), eStruxture (2), Qu Data Centres (2), 4Web (1), Beacon Data Centers (1), Hut 8 (1), Meta (1), Prairie Sky Data Solutions (1), Qu (1), Whipcord Edge (1)
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)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); 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; 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; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; 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: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; 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
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain