Power plants and the grid in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador has 38 power plants with 8.3 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 7.8 GW.
Capacity by fuel
38 power plants with 8.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 7.8 GW from 34 plants (93%)
- Oil: 490 MW from 1 plant (6%)
- Wind: 54 MW from 2 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 15 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Churchill Falls: Hydro, 5.4 GW
- Muskrat Falls: Hydro, 824 MW
- Bay D'espoir: Hydro, 604 MW
- Holyrood: Oil, 490 MW
- Twin Falls (Iron Ore): Hydro, 225 MW
- Deer Lake: Hydro, 129 MW
- Cat Arm: Hydro, 127 MW
- Upper Salmon: Hydro, 84 MW
- Grand Falls: Hydro, 75 MW
- Hinds Lake: Hydro, 75 MW
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)
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain