Power plants and the grid in Vermont
Vermont has 114 power plants with 853 MW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 337 MW. The map shows 2 data centers in Vermont. Its interconnection queue holds 5 active requests for 129 MW.
Capacity by fuel
114 power plants with 853 MW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 337 MW from 44 plants (39%)
- Solar: 165 MW from 54 plants (19%)
- Wind: 150 MW from 5 plants (18%)
- Oil: 110 MW from 5 plants (13%)
- Biomass: 79 MW from 3 plants (9%)
- Battery storage: 12 MW from 3 plants (1%)
Largest plants
- Kingdom Community Wind: Wind, 65 MW
- J C McNeil: Biomass, 52 MW
- Bellows Falls: Hydro, 47 MW
- Harriman: Hydro, 41 MW
- Sheffield Wind: Wind, 40 MW
- Wilder: Hydro, 39 MW
- VPPSA Project 10: Oil, 38 MW
- Berlin 5: Oil, 35 MW
- Vernon Dam: Hydro, 34 MW
- Deerfield Wind LLC: Wind, 30 MW
Planned and under construction
5 generators planned, under construction or testing, 108 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 92 MW
- Battery storage: 16 MW
Grid operators
- ISO-NE (ISO or RTO): 114 plants
Data centers
2 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: ColoSpace (1), Power Shift (1)
Interconnection queue
5 active requests to connect 129 MW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 90 MW in 3 requests
- Battery storage: 39 MW in 2 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