Power plants and the grid in New Brunswick
New Brunswick has 25 power plants with 4.2 GW of capacity, oil the largest share at 1.4 GW. The map shows 3 data centers in New Brunswick.
Capacity by fuel
25 power plants with 4.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Oil: 1.4 GW from 2 plants (33%)
- Hydro: 953 MW from 11 plants (23%)
- Nuclear: 660 MW from 1 plant (16%)
- Coal: 467 MW from 1 plant (11%)
- Wind: 336 MW from 4 plants (8%)
- Natural gas: 290 MW from 1 plant (7%)
- Biomass: 132 MW from 4 plants (3%)
- Solar: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Coleson Cove: Oil, 972 MW
- Mactaquac: Hydro, 668 MW
- Point Lepreau: Nuclear, 660 MW
- Belledune: Coal, 467 MW
- Millbank: Oil, 397 MW
- Bayside Power: Natural gas, 290 MW
- Kent Hills 1 / 2: Wind, 150 MW
- Beechwood: Hydro, 112 MW
- Caribou: Wind, 99 MW
- Grand Falls / Grand Sault: Hydro, 66 MW
Data centers
3 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Bell (2)
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)
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