# US Power Plants — U.S., DC & Puerto Rico location dataset

All 14,767 locations in U.S., DC & Puerto Rico, as one CSV: 35 fields per record, 52 states, file built October 3, 2026. $49 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/us-power-plant-list

14,767 US power plants from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's generator inventory (Form EIA-860M, August 2026), one row per plant, with the street address, city and ZIP from the EIA-860 2025 plant file. It covers every plant with at least 1 MW of generators in the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico: 1,418 GW of nameplate capacity. By main fuel: 7,453 solar, 1,979 natural gas, 1,401 hydro, 1,373 wind, 894 petroleum, 664 battery storage, 584 biomass and waste, 193 coal, 66 geothermal, 56 nuclear and 33 pumped-storage hydro plants. 2,845 plants are 100 MW or larger and 314 are 1,000 MW or larger. Each row carries EIA's plant id, the operating company and its EIA id, county, coordinates, NERC region, balancing authority, sector (utility, independent power producer, industrial or commercial), the main fuel and technology plus every fuel and technology at the plant, nameplate and summer MW, battery MWh, generator count, the first and newest operating year, planned retirements, planned new capacity and status (14,236 operating, the rest on standby or out of service). California (1,926), New York (1,163) and Texas (1,095) have the most.

## The figures

- Records: 14,767 locations
- States: 52
- Coverage: U.S., DC & Puerto Rico
- Fields: 35
- Price: $49 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- Snapshot built on October 3, 2026. Not rebuilt on a schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-03

The file has all 14,767 locations across 52 states in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Plant name as filed with the EIA
- `plantId`: EIA plant id (ORIS code)
- `operator`: Company that operates the plant
- `operatorId`: EIA id of the operating company
- `address`: Street address
- `city`: City
- `state`: Two-letter state code (DC and PR included)
- `zip`: ZIP code
- `county`: County
- `country`: US
- `latitude`: Plant latitude
- `longitude`: Plant longitude
- `nercRegion`: NERC reliability region (SERC, RF, WECC, TRE, NPCC, MRO...)
- `balancingAuthority`: Balancing authority code (ERCO, PJM, MISO, CISO...)
- `balancingAuthorityName`: Balancing authority name
- `sector`: Electric Utility, IPP (independent power producer), Industrial or Commercial, with or without combined heat and power (CHP)
- `primaryFuel`: Fuel group with the most nameplate MW at the plant: Natural gas, Coal, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Battery storage, Hydro, Pumped-storage hydro, Petroleum, Biomass and waste, Geothermal or Other
- `primaryTechnology`: Generating technology with the most nameplate MW, e.g. Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
- `fuels`: Every fuel group at the plant, largest first
- `technologies`: Every generating technology at the plant, largest first
- `energySourceCodes`: EIA energy source codes of the generators (NG, SUN, WND, NUC, BIT, MWH...)
- `nameplateMw`: Nameplate capacity in MW, summed over the plant's generators
- `netSummerMw`: Net summer capacity in MW
- `storageMwh`: Battery energy capacity in MWh, where the plant has storage
- `generators`: Number of generators at the plant
- `firstOperatingYear`: Year the oldest generator came online
- `newestOperatingYear`: Year the newest generator came online
- `plannedRetirementYear`: Earliest year a generator is planned to retire, where one is
- `status`: Operating, Standby, Out of service (returning) or Out of service
- `waterSource`: Cooling or process water source, as filed with the EIA
- `sourceRelease`: EIA releases the row comes from
- `geo_precision`: How the coordinates were arrived at: the register's own point, or a geocode of the address, ZIP centre or city centre
- `county_fips`: Five-digit county FIPS code
- `county_note`: Set when the ZIP code spans more than one county
- `address_quality`: complete, no_house_number, po_box, missing_city_or_zip or missing

In the header but under 1% filled, so not in this release: plannedAdditionsMw.

## Ask this list a question with a link

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- [Only California, the state with the most](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list&state=CA)
- [Within 25 miles of New York, NY, the busiest area](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list&near=New+York+NY&radius=25)
- [Within a 30-minute drive of New York, NY](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list&near=New+York+NY&drive=30)
- [Only rows where nameplateMw is over 10](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list&where=nameplateMw%3Agt%3A10)
- [Every Power Plants, Refineries & Fuel Terminals list combined, within 25 miles of East Orange, NJ](https://locationlists.com/find?category=energy-infrastructure&near=East+Orange+NJ&radius=25)
- [Each one's nearest US Petroleum Fuel Terminals, in California, with miles](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list&state=CA&relate=nearest&k=1&b.dataset=us-fuel-terminal-list&b.state=CA)
- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=us-power-plant-list)

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## Questions

### Where does the data come from?

From the U.S. Energy Information Administration: the monthly generator inventory (Form EIA-860M) for August 2026, which lists every generator at plants of 1 MW or more, and the annual EIA-860 plant file for 2025 for the street address, NERC region and balancing authority. Generators are rolled up to one row per plant.

### Can I get just the gas, nuclear, solar or wind plants?

Yes. Filter primaryFuel (the fuel with the most MW at the plant) or fuels (every fuel at the plant). There are 1,979 natural gas, 56 nuclear, 193 coal, 7,453 solar, 1,373 wind, 664 battery storage and 1,401 hydro plants.

### Does it include plants that are retiring or planned?

Plants with at least one generator operating, on standby or out of service are included; status says which. plannedRetirementYear shows planned retirements and plannedAdditionsMw shows new capacity under construction or planned at an existing plant. Projects with no generator built yet are not in the file.

### Are small plants included?

Every plant of 1 MW or more. Rooftop and other plants under 1 MW are outside the EIA inventory.

### Is this list in the Energy Infrastructure Bundle?

Yes. The bundle puts the power plant, refinery and fuel terminal lists in one CSV, tagged by facility type, for less than buying the three one by one.

### How current is it?

Snapshot built on October 3, 2026. It is a one-time snapshot and is not rebuilt on a schedule.