Power plants and the grid in North Dakota
North Dakota has 63 power plants with 10.7 GW of capacity, wind the largest share at 5 GW. The map shows 8 data centers in North Dakota. Its interconnection queue holds 63 active requests for 14.5 GW.
Capacity by fuel
63 power plants with 10.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Wind: 5 GW from 43 plants (47%)
- Coal: 3.8 GW from 7 plants (36%)
- Natural gas: 1.3 GW from 6 plants (12%)
- Hydro: 510 MW from 1 plant (5%)
- Oil: 53 MW from 5 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 10 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Coal Creek: Coal, 1.1 GW
- Antelope Valley: Coal, 900 MW
- Pioneer Generation Station: Natural gas, 763 MW
- Milton R Young: Coal, 684 MW
- Leland Olds: Coal, 660 MW
- Garrison: Hydro, 510 MW
- Coyote: Coal, 426 MW
- Aurora Wind Project: Wind, 299 MW
- Badger Wind, LLC: Wind, 250 MW
- Lonesome Creek Station: Natural gas, 240 MW
Planned and under construction
7 generators planned, under construction or testing, 2.3 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 1.5 GW
- Solar: 295 MW
- Wind: 262 MW
- Battery storage: 240 MW
Grid operators
Data centers
8 data center sites on the map.
- Cass County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Applied Digital (2), Atlas Power Holdings (ND) LLC (1), Aurum Capital Ventures (1), Core Scientific (1), CoreWeave / Applied Digital (1)
Interconnection queue
63 active requests to connect 14.5 GW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Wind: 5.4 GW in 27 requests
- Natural gas: 3.3 GW in 7 requests
- Solar: 2.7 GW in 13 requests
- Battery storage: 2.1 GW in 12 requests
- Other: 866 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)
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