Power plants and the grid in Wyoming
Wyoming has 72 power plants with 11.8 GW of capacity, wind the largest share at 4.6 GW. The map shows 10 data centers in Wyoming. Its interconnection queue holds 73 active requests for 16.2 GW.
Capacity by fuel
72 power plants with 11.8 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Wind: 4.6 GW from 30 plants (39%)
- Coal: 4.2 GW from 11 plants (36%)
- Natural gas: 2.4 GW from 10 plants (21%)
- Hydro: 307 MW from 16 plants (3%)
- Solar: 242 MW from 2 plants (2%)
- Other: 12 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Oil: 5 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Jim Bridger: Natural gas, 2.1 GW
- Laramie River Station: Coal, 1.7 GW
- Dave Johnston: Coal, 745 MW
- Naughton: Coal, 604 MW
- Rock Creek Wind: Wind, 590 MW
- TB Flats: Wind, 503 MW
- Cedar Springs Wind IV: Wind, 390 MW
- Dry Fork Station: Coal, 390 MW
- Wyodak: Coal, 332 MW
- Boswell Wind: Wind, 330 MW
Planned and under construction
9 generators planned, under construction or testing, 7 GW in all, not counted above.
- Wind: 4.1 GW
- Solar: 2.5 GW
- Nuclear: 342 MW
- Natural gas: 120 MW
Grid operators
- SPP (ISO or RTO): 2 plants
- PacifiCorp East (PACE): 32 plants
- WACM: 19 plants
- WAUW: 15 plants
- Bonneville Power Administration (BPAT): 2 plants
- Northwestern Energy (Nwmt) (NWMT): 2 plants
- Southwest Power Pool West Balancing Authority Area (SWPW): 2 plants
Data centers
10 data center sites on the map.
- Laramie County: 9 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Microsoft (4), Meta (2), Crusoe (1), Mountain West Technologies (1), Related Digital (1), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (1)
Interconnection queue
73 active requests to connect 16.2 GW of new generation and storage, and 7 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Wind: 5.7 GW in 32 requests
- Solar: 5.5 GW in 23 requests
- Natural gas: 3.1 GW in 11 requests
- Nuclear: 1 GW in 2 requests
- Battery storage: 929 MW in 5 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