Power plants and the grid in Indiana
Indiana has 222 power plants with 31.9 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 12.5 GW. The map shows 51 data centers in Indiana. Its interconnection queue holds 285 active requests for 57.1 GW.
Capacity by fuel
222 power plants with 31.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 12.5 GW from 11 plants (39%)
- Natural gas: 9.5 GW from 42 plants (30%)
- Solar: 5.6 GW from 124 plants (18%)
- Wind: 3.9 GW from 20 plants (12%)
- Battery storage: 217 MW from 4 plants (1%)
- Other: 88 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Hydro: 72 MW from 6 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 49 MW from 9 plants (under 1%)
- Oil: 13 MW from 5 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Gibson: Coal, 3.1 GW
- Rockport: Coal, 2.6 GW
- Lawrenceburg Power, LLC: Natural gas, 1.2 GW
- Clifty Creek: Coal, 1.2 GW
- Cayuga: Coal, 1.1 GW
- AES Petersburg: Coal, 1.1 GW
- Merom: Coal, 978 MW
- Harding Street: Natural gas, 966 MW
- R M Schahfer: Coal, 877 MW
- St Joseph Energy Center: Natural gas, 715 MW
Largest plants near Indianapolis
- Harding Street: Natural gas, 966 MW, 5 km away
- Eagle Valley (IN): Natural gas, 673 MW, 36 km away
- Georgetown: Natural gas, 316 MW, 18 km away
- Noblesville: Natural gas, 264 MW, 42 km away
- Speedway Solar, LLC: Solar, 199 MW, 47 km away
Largest plants near Gary
- R M Schahfer: Coal, 877 MW, 48 km away
- Whiting Clean Energy: Natural gas, 513 MW, 16 km away
- Michigan City: Coal, 455 MW, 38 km away
- ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor: Natural gas, 175 MW, 17 km away
- Gary Works: Natural gas, 161 MW, 5 km away
Largest plants near Fort Wayne
- Auburn Renewables LLC: Solar, 11 MW, 29 km away
- Columbia City Solar Park: Solar, 4 MW, 33 km away
- Waterloo Solar, LLC: Solar, 1 MW, 40 km away
Planned and under construction
25 generators planned, under construction or testing, 5.3 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 3.6 GW
- Natural gas: 1.4 GW
- Wind: 400 MW
Grid operators
Data centers
51 data center sites on the map.
- Lake County: 9 sites
- St. Joseph County: 8 sites
- Marion County: 6 sites
- Allen County: 4 sites
- LaPorte County: 3 sites
- Tippecanoe County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Google (3), Meta (3), CyrusOne (2), DataBank (2), Global Access Point (2), Microsoft (2), Wylie Capital (2), Amazon (1), Amazon / Anthropic (1), American Tower (1)
Interconnection queue
285 active requests to connect 57.1 GW of new generation and storage, and 11 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 29.8 GW in 180 requests
- Natural gas: 14 GW in 19 requests
- Battery storage: 9.9 GW in 64 requests
- Wind: 3.1 GW in 17 requests
- Other: 260 MW in 5 requests
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
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain