Power plants and the grid in Rhode Island
Rhode Island has 112 power plants with 2.4 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.8 GW. The map shows 1 data center in Rhode Island. Its interconnection queue holds 2 active requests for 278 MW.
Capacity by fuel
112 power plants with 2.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.8 GW from 8 plants (76%)
- Solar: 451 MW from 77 plants (19%)
- Wind: 77 MW from 19 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 40 MW from 3 plants (2%)
- Oil: 7 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Hydro: 4 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 3 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Rhode Island State Energy Center: Natural gas, 554 MW
- Manchester Street: Natural gas, 471 MW
- Tiverton Power Plant: Natural gas, 273 MW
- Ocean State Power II: Natural gas, 268 MW
- Ocean State Power: Natural gas, 232 MW
- Robin Hollow Solar: Solar, 41 MW
- Dry Bridge Solar (Brown University): Solar, 40 MW
- Johnston LFG Turbine Plant: Biomass, 31 MW
- Block Island Wind Farm: Wind, 29 MW
- University Solar, LLC: Solar, 24 MW
Largest plants near Providence
- Rhode Island State Energy Center: Natural gas, 554 MW, 9 km away
- Manchester Street: Natural gas, 471 MW, 1 km away
- Tiverton Power Plant: Natural gas, 273 MW, 29 km away
- Ocean State Power II: Natural gas, 268 MW, 30 km away
- Ocean State Power: Natural gas, 232 MW, 29 km away
Planned and under construction
2 generators planned, under construction or testing, 719 MW in all, not counted above.
- Wind: 715 MW
- Solar: 4 MW
Grid operators
- ISO-NE (ISO or RTO): 112 plants
Data centers
1 data center site on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Prov.net (1)
Interconnection queue
2 active requests to connect 278 MW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Battery storage: 205 MW in 1 request
- Natural gas: 73 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