The North American Power Plants interactive map shows the place of nearly 10,000 ability plants inward the USA, Canada & Mexico. The map too provides a breakdown of how much capacity is provided past times each type of ability plant. Currently natural gas provides over 40% of capacity inward the whole of North America.
6,400 of the ability plants on the map (generating ane or to a greater extent than megawatts) utilisation renewable sources, such every bit hydroelectric, wind, solar, pumped storage, biomass, geothermal as well as tidal. 3,300 of the ability plants utilisation non-renewable sources (natural gas, coal, nuclear as well as petroleum).
You tin utilisation the drop-down bill of fare to filter the map past times type of of ability production. When you lot filter the map as well as then the map sidebar too updates to supply a breakdown of the capacity inside the selected sector. This sidebar too automatically updates every bit you lot zoom & pan the map to supply a breakdown of capacity for solely the ability plants shown inward the electrical flow map view.
Carbon Brief too provides a comprehensive map showing How the US generates electricity. The map visualizes how & where electricity is generated inward the USA as well as the total of electricity generated past times the dissimilar types of electricity production.
The map allows you lot to filter the results past times type of electricity production. This allows you lot to run across where inward the province the dissimilar types of electricity production create the nigh output. For illustration geothermal ability plants are all based inward the westward of the province field nuclear ability plants look to hold upwardly to a greater extent than oftentimes than non built inward the east.
All the ability plants are displayed on the map using colored scaled markers. The colors dot the type of ability constitute as well as the size of the markers represents the plants' output capacity. The graph inward the map sidebar shows the per centum that each type of production contributes to the full of electricity production inward the United States. You tin pick out a province from the drop-down bill of fare to stance the makeup of the capacity mix for that state.
