Power plants and the grid in British Columbia
British Columbia has 174 power plants with 19.7 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 16.5 GW. The map shows 17 data centers in British Columbia.
Capacity by fuel
174 power plants with 19.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 16.5 GW from 122 plants (84%)
- Natural gas: 1.3 GW from 3 plants (7%)
- Biomass: 1.1 GW from 34 plants (5%)
- Wind: 749 MW from 10 plants (4%)
- Other: 17 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Solar: 6 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Mica: Hydro, 2.7 GW
- G.M. Shrum: Hydro, 2.7 GW
- Revelstoke: Hydro, 2.5 GW
- Site C Powerhouse: Hydro, 1.1 GW
- Burrard: Natural gas, 950 MW
- Kemano: Hydro, 896 MW
- Seven Mile: Hydro, 805 MW
- Peace Canyon: Hydro, 694 MW
- Kootenay Canal: Hydro, 570 MW
- Waneta: Hydro, 493 MW
Largest plants near Vancouver
- Burrard: Natural gas, 950 MW, 17 km away
- Howe Sound Pulp & Paper Corp: Biomass, 112 MW, 38 km away
- Lake Buntzen 1: Hydro, 59 MW, 21 km away
- Mamquam: Hydro, 58 MW, 49 km away
- Skookum Power (Mamquam Skookum): Hydro, 25 MW, 50 km away
Largest plants near Victoria
- Hartland LFG: Biomass, 2 MW, 14 km away
Data centers
17 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Cologix (4), Equinix (2), TeraGo Networks Inc. (2), Canhost (1), Carrier Connect Data Solutions (1), eSecureData Inc. (1), ETB S.A. ESP (1), RackForce (1), SmartColo (1), TATA Communications (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