Power plants and the grid in Oregon
Oregon has 301 power plants with 18.5 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 8.3 GW. The map shows 121 data centers in Oregon. Its interconnection queue holds 280 active requests for 103.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
301 power plants with 18.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 8.3 GW from 61 plants (45%)
- Wind: 4.3 GW from 50 plants (23%)
- Natural gas: 3.8 GW from 12 plants (20%)
- Solar: 1.4 GW from 151 plants (8%)
- Battery storage: 492 MW from 4 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 255 MW from 21 plants (1%)
- Geothermal: 20 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- John Day: Hydro, 2.1 GW
- The Dalles: Hydro, 1.8 GW
- Bonneville: Hydro, 1.2 GW
- McNary: Hydro, 967 MW
- Hermiston Power Partnership: Natural gas, 629 MW
- Beaver: Natural gas, 493 MW
- Klamath Cogeneration Plant: Natural gas, 490 MW
- Hermiston Generating Plant: Natural gas, 464 MW
- Hells Canyon: Hydro, 453 MW
- Biglow Canyon Wind Farm: Wind, 450 MW
Largest plants near Portland
- Seaside BESS: Battery storage, 200 MW, 13 km away
- Sundial (Troutdale) BESS: Battery storage, 200 MW, 21 km away
- Constable BESS: Battery storage, 75 MW, 21 km away
- North Fork: Hydro, 58 MW, 44 km away
- Faraday: Hydro, 42 MW, 40 km away
Planned and under construction
19 generators planned, under construction or testing, 7.8 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 6.9 GW
- Wind: 600 MW
- Battery storage: 243 MW
Grid operators
- Portland General Electric Company (PGE): 102 plants
- Pacificorp - West (PACW): 97 plants
- Bonneville Power Administration (BPAT): 61 plants
- Idaho Power (IPCO): 25 plants
- AVRN: 15 plants
- GRID: 1 plant
Data centers
121 data center sites on the map.
- Washington County: 42 sites
- Morrow County: 25 sites
- Umatilla County: 24 sites
- Crook County: 15 sites
- Wasco County: 6 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Amazon Web Services (40), Meta (9), Google (6), Stack Infrastructure (6), Amazon (5), Quality Technology Services (5), Apple Inc. (4), Flexential (4), Digital Realty (3), EdgeConneX (3)
Interconnection queue
280 active requests to connect 103.9 GW of new generation and storage, and 43 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 58.8 GW in 159 requests
- Battery storage: 22.1 GW in 59 requests
- Other: 12.9 GW in 26 requests
- Wind: 8.3 GW in 30 requests
- Natural gas: 1.8 GW in 5 requests
- Geothermal: 54 MW in 1 request
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