Power Supply: Adequacy and reliability

Power Supply Outlook
A snapshot of the current power supply situation, updated daily.

Power Generation Map
View hundreds of Northwest power facilities in this GoogleMaps and Google-Earth based tool. Links to detail for each facility.

Generating projects

Existing power plants (Jul 2010, 4mb Excel) Information on operating generating projects in the Northwest. Includes projects under construction (with some duplication of entries in the Generating Project Development table, below) and recent retirements. Also includes charts of capacity and energy by resource type and resource additions and retirements by year and resource type.

New and proposed power plants (Jul 2010, 320k Excel) Information on generating project development activity in the Northwest. Includes projects under construction, permitted sites, active proposals and recently-completed projects.

Capacity is essentially the 'horsepower' rating of power plants - how much they are designed to produce at full load operation Chart.

Capability is the maximum amount of energy the plants are capable of producing over the course of an average year Chart.

How much energy was actually produced each year Chart.

How much energy is brought online or retired each year (new plant construction, etc.) Chart.

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