Power plants and the grid in Nebraska
Nebraska has 138 power plants with 11.5 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 4.1 GW. The map shows 38 data centers in Nebraska. Its interconnection queue holds 80 active requests for 15.8 GW.
Capacity by fuel
138 power plants with 11.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 4.1 GW from 8 plants (36%)
- Wind: 3.5 GW from 33 plants (31%)
- Natural gas: 2.3 GW from 28 plants (20%)
- Nuclear: 769 MW from 1 plant (7%)
- Oil: 353 MW from 28 plants (3%)
- Hydro: 284 MW from 9 plants (2%)
- Solar: 159 MW from 26 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 7 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 6 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Gerald Gentleman: Coal, 1.4 GW
- Nebraska City: Coal, 1.3 GW
- Cooper Nuclear Station: Nuclear, 769 MW
- North Omaha: Coal, 564 MW
- Turtle Creek: Natural gas, 442 MW
- Grande Prairie Wind Farm: Wind, 400 MW
- Cass County: Natural gas, 324 MW
- Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project: Wind, 318 MW
- Sarpy County: Natural gas, 316 MW
- Milligan 1 Wind Farm: Wind, 300 MW
Largest plants near Omaha
- North Omaha: Coal, 564 MW, 11 km away
- Turtle Creek: Natural gas, 442 MW, 21 km away
- Cass County: Natural gas, 324 MW, 33 km away
- Sarpy County: Natural gas, 316 MW, 8 km away
- Lon Wright: Coal, 159 MW, 43 km away
Planned and under construction
10 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.9 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 1.7 GW
- Solar: 100 MW
- Wind: 75 MW
- Battery storage: 50 MW
- Oil: 6 MW
Grid operators
- SPP (ISO or RTO): 131 plants
- WACM: 7 plants
Data centers
38 data center sites on the map.
- Sarpy County: 20 sites
- Douglas County: 13 sites
- Lancaster County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Google (11), Meta (7), Tierpoint (2), Binary.net (1), Cogent Communications (1), Ensono (1), Fidelity (1), First National of Nebraska (1), Hamilton Managed Hosting&Colocation (1), LightEdge Solutions (1)
Interconnection queue
80 active requests to connect 15.8 GW of new generation and storage, and 6 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Natural gas: 5.6 GW in 20 requests
- Solar: 5.5 GW in 28 requests
- Wind: 2.3 GW in 13 requests
- Battery storage: 2 GW in 15 requests
- Other: 522 MW in 4 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