Power plants and the grid in Utah
Utah has 132 power plants with 11.6 GW of capacity, solar the largest share at 3.8 GW. The map shows 39 data centers in Utah. Its interconnection queue holds 141 active requests for 31.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
132 power plants with 11.6 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Solar: 3.8 GW from 57 plants (33%)
- Natural gas: 3.6 GW from 23 plants (31%)
- Coal: 2.8 GW from 4 plants (24%)
- Battery storage: 520 MW from 5 plants (4%)
- Wind: 392 MW from 5 plants (3%)
- Hydro: 259 MW from 28 plants (2%)
- Geothermal: 71 MW from 3 plants (1%)
- Other: 46 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Oil: 23 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 11 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Hunter: Coal, 1.4 GW
- Lake Side Power Plant: Natural gas, 1.2 GW
- Intermountain Power Project: Natural gas, 940 MW
- Huntington: Coal, 909 MW
- Green River Energy Center - Hybrid: Solar, 800 MW
- Faraday Solar: Solar, 525 MW
- Currant Creek: Natural gas, 524 MW
- Bonanza: Coal, 471 MW
- Gadsby: Natural gas, 354 MW
- Milford Wind Corridor I LLC: Wind, 204 MW
Largest plants near Salt Lake City
- Lake Side Power Plant: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 49 km away
- Gadsby: Natural gas, 354 MW, 3 km away
- Dominguez Energy Storage: Battery storage, 200 MW, 10 km away
- West Valley Generation Project: Natural gas, 185 MW, 16 km away
- Kennecott Power Plant: Other, 38 MW, 20 km away
Largest plants near Ogden
- Bountiful City: Natural gas, 25 MW, 39 km away
- Tesoro SLC Cogeneration Plant: Natural gas, 23 MW, 49 km away
- Gateway: Hydro, 4 MW, 16 km away
- Pioneer: Hydro, 4 MW, 2 km away
- SF Auto O1: Solar, 3 MW, 4 km away
Largest plants near Provo
- Lake Side Power Plant: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 14 km away
- Faraday Solar: Solar, 525 MW, 42 km away
- Nebo Power Station: Natural gas, 130 MW, 22 km away
- Whitehead: Natural gas, 24 MW, 8 km away
- Spanish Fork Wind Park 2 LLC: Wind, 19 MW, 20 km away
Planned and under construction
13 generators planned, under construction or testing, 3.7 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 2.2 GW
- Pumped storage: 1 GW
- Battery storage: 447 MW
- Geothermal: 91 MW
- Natural gas: 8 MW
Grid operators
- PacifiCorp East (PACE): 119 plants
- WACM: 7 plants
- Los Angeles DWP (LDWP): 3 plants
- WAUW: 3 plants
Data centers
39 data center sites on the map.
- Salt Lake County: 23 sites
- Utah County: 12 sites
- Millard County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Flexential (8), DataBank (6), Meta (6), Aligned (3), Fibernet (2), BluSky AI (1), C7 Data Centers, Cloud and IT Services (1), CenturyLink (1), Data Center Power Company (1), EdgeConneX (1)
Interconnection queue
141 active requests to connect 31.9 GW of new generation and storage, and 12 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 22.2 GW in 82 requests
- Battery storage: 4.6 GW in 29 requests
- Natural gas: 2.8 GW in 18 requests
- Other: 1.2 GW in 3 requests
- Nuclear: 500 MW in 1 request
- Wind: 408 MW in 4 requests
- Geothermal: 64 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)
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