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Map of all utility-scale power plants. This article lists the largest electricity generating stations in the United States in terms of installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear, natural gas, oil shale, and peat, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, hydro, solar energy, solar heat ...
The following pages lists the power stations in the United States by type: List of largest power stations in the United States; Non-renewable energy. Coal-fired power stations; Natural gas-fired power stations; Nuclear power stations; Renewable energy. Geothermal power stations; Hydroelectric power stations; Solar power stations; Wind farms ...
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US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2013 (US EIA). Nuclear power plant locations and nameplate capacity of the top 10 states. Power plants map August 2016. This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity.
In 2019 there were around 1900 natural gas power stations in the United States, of which about 800 belonged to electric utilities. [1] In 2019, these natural gas plants produced 38% of the United States electricity production , the highest percentage of any source above coal , nuclear and renewables . [ 2 ]
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
The first geothermal area to be exploited for commercial electricity generation was The Geysers, a complex of 22 geothermal power stations located in Sonoma and Lake counties of California, which was commissioned in September 1960. [1]
Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants. Coal was 17% of generating capacity. [4] Between 2010 and May 2019, 290 coal power plants, representing 40% of the U.S. coal generating capacity, closed.