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631 plants visible3 without a location
Group plants by Resources Reported balancing authority Operator Owner type Individual plants
Hydro222 plants · 222 located · 0 without a location 32,005.8 MW 105,294,902 MWh· 2 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 222 without a map quantity Wind127 plants · 127 located · 0 without a location 10,478.4 MW 27,318,260 MWh· 2 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 127 without a map quantity Natural gas40 plants · 39 located · 1 without a location 9,945.8 MW 49,617,995 MWh 18,371,260 t CO2· 16 without a map quantity Coal6 plants · 6 located · 0 without a location 2,608.6 MW 13,015,845 MWh 12,956,730 t CO2· 3 without a map quantity Solar159 plants · 157 located · 2 without a location 1,949.6 MW 3,588,049 MWh· 5 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 159 without a map quantity Nuclear1 plants · 1 located · 0 without a location 1,200 MW 9,967,139 MWh no fully monitored plant· 1 without a map quantity Waste and biomass36 plants · 36 located · 0 without a location 610.8 MW 2,777,287 MWh· 2 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 36 without a map quantity Storage6 plants · 6 located · 0 without a location 335.5 MW -3,204 MWh· 1 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 6 without a map quantity Other5 plants · 5 located · 0 without a location 126.9 MW 586,857 MWh no fully monitored plant· 5 without a map quantity Oil1 plants · 1 located · 0 without a location 5.4 MW 78 MWh no fully monitored plant· 1 without a map quantity Unknown31 plants · 31 located · 0 without a location 0 MW 179,910 MWh· 26 without reported MWh no fully monitored plant· 31 without a map quantity
Distributed generation · Washington Distributed generationCustomer-sited and small generation reported by utilities in aggregate on EIA-861; no locations; a separate population from the plant inventory, never added to it.Definition ↗ Utility reports · no locations Distributed generation reported by utilities to EIA-861 for WA customers in 2024; separate from the plant inventory, never added to it
Utility reports for the whole state. Plant filters do not change these figures.
Utility-reported, no locations, not in the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). Storage is listed separately and never added to generation capacity. Non-net-metered units >= 1 MW can also appear in EIA-860; the overlap is disclosed, not resolved. Source rollup rows are excluded from every sum.
Generation capacity Distributed generation capacity (net-metered + non-net-metered)
633.9MW
2024
Source & method Sum of EIA-861 utility-reported nameplate capacity over leaf technology classes, excluding storage and source rollup rows; utility x state grain; no locations; not part of the EIA-860 plant inventory
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
37 of 37 reporting utilities included.
net-metered + non-net-metered; the two EIA-861 schedules are disjoint by design
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metered capacity
494.9MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
37 of 37 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Non-net-metered distributed capacity
139MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
7 of 7 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metering participation and exports Customer counts can include the same customer under more than one technology. Energy sold to utilities measures exports; it does not measure all generation at customer sites.
Net-metered customers
62,330count
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 1 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering customer count over leaf technology classes; a customer with two technologies can be counted twice by the source
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
36 of 37 reporting utilities included.
1 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Energy sold back to the utility by net-metered customers
30,074MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 30 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule; export to the utility, not customer generation
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
7 of 37 reporting utilities included.
30 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage Power rating in MW and energy capacity in MWh are separate measurements. These storage quantities are excluded from the generation capacity above.
Distributed storage capacity
24.5MW
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 21 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes (storage_pv, storage_nonpv, all_storage); power rating, kept separate from generation capacity
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
16 of 37 reporting utilities included.
21 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage energy capacity
40.4MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 25 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes; usable energy as reported
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
12 of 37 reporting utilities included.
25 of 37 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=WA
Publisher & attribution ↗ Released record JSON ↗
Distributed generation · Oregon Distributed generationCustomer-sited and small generation reported by utilities in aggregate on EIA-861; no locations; a separate population from the plant inventory, never added to it.Definition ↗ Utility reports · no locations Distributed generation reported by utilities to EIA-861 for OR customers in 2024; separate from the plant inventory, never added to it
Utility reports for the whole state. Plant filters do not change these figures.
Utility-reported, no locations, not in the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). Storage is listed separately and never added to generation capacity. Non-net-metered units >= 1 MW can also appear in EIA-860; the overlap is disclosed, not resolved. Source rollup rows are excluded from every sum.
Generation capacity Distributed generation capacity (net-metered + non-net-metered)
520.6MW
2024
Source & method Sum of EIA-861 utility-reported nameplate capacity over leaf technology classes, excluding storage and source rollup rows; utility x state grain; no locations; not part of the EIA-860 plant inventory
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
22 of 22 reporting utilities included.
net-metered + non-net-metered; the two EIA-861 schedules are disjoint by design
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metered capacity
457.8MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
22 of 22 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Non-net-metered distributed capacity
62.8MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
10 of 10 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metering participation and exports Customer counts can include the same customer under more than one technology. Energy sold to utilities measures exports; it does not measure all generation at customer sites.
Net-metered customers
55,655count
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 1 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering customer count over leaf technology classes; a customer with two technologies can be counted twice by the source
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
21 of 22 reporting utilities included.
1 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Energy sold back to the utility by net-metered customers
8,980MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 16 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule; export to the utility, not customer generation
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
6 of 22 reporting utilities included.
16 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage Power rating in MW and energy capacity in MWh are separate measurements. These storage quantities are excluded from the generation capacity above.
Distributed storage capacity
8.2MW
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 18 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes (storage_pv, storage_nonpv, all_storage); power rating, kept separate from generation capacity
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
4 of 22 reporting utilities included.
18 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage energy capacity
23.6MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 20 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes; usable energy as reported
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
2 of 22 reporting utilities included.
20 of 22 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=OR
Publisher & attribution ↗ Released record JSON ↗
Distributed generation · Idaho Distributed generationCustomer-sited and small generation reported by utilities in aggregate on EIA-861; no locations; a separate population from the plant inventory, never added to it.Definition ↗ Utility reports · no locations Distributed generation reported by utilities to EIA-861 for ID customers in 2024; separate from the plant inventory, never added to it
Utility reports for the whole state. Plant filters do not change these figures.
Utility-reported, no locations, not in the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). Storage is listed separately and never added to generation capacity. Non-net-metered units >= 1 MW can also appear in EIA-860; the overlap is disclosed, not resolved. Source rollup rows are excluded from every sum.
Generation capacity Distributed generation capacity (net-metered + non-net-metered)
189.9MW
2024
Source & method Sum of EIA-861 utility-reported nameplate capacity over leaf technology classes, excluding storage and source rollup rows; utility x state grain; no locations; not part of the EIA-860 plant inventory
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
10 of 10 reporting utilities included.
net-metered + non-net-metered; the two EIA-861 schedules are disjoint by design
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metered capacity
178MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
10 of 10 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Non-net-metered distributed capacity
11.9MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
2 of 2 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metering participation and exports Customer counts can include the same customer under more than one technology. Energy sold to utilities measures exports; it does not measure all generation at customer sites.
Net-metered customers
23,717count
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 1 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering customer count over leaf technology classes; a customer with two technologies can be counted twice by the source
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
9 of 10 reporting utilities included.
1 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Energy sold back to the utility by net-metered customers
0MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 8 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule; export to the utility, not customer generation
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
2 of 10 reporting utilities included.
8 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage Power rating in MW and energy capacity in MWh are separate measurements. These storage quantities are excluded from the generation capacity above.
Distributed storage capacity
3.7MW
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 7 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes (storage_pv, storage_nonpv, all_storage); power rating, kept separate from generation capacity
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
3 of 10 reporting utilities included.
7 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage energy capacity
6MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 8 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes; usable energy as reported
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
2 of 10 reporting utilities included.
8 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=ID
Publisher & attribution ↗ Released record JSON ↗
Distributed generation · Montana Distributed generationCustomer-sited and small generation reported by utilities in aggregate on EIA-861; no locations; a separate population from the plant inventory, never added to it.Definition ↗ Utility reports · no locations Distributed generation reported by utilities to EIA-861 for MT customers in 2024; separate from the plant inventory, never added to it
Utility reports for the whole state. Plant filters do not change these figures.
Utility-reported, no locations, not in the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). Storage is listed separately and never added to generation capacity. Non-net-metered units >= 1 MW can also appear in EIA-860; the overlap is disclosed, not resolved. Source rollup rows are excluded from every sum.
Generation capacity Distributed generation capacity (net-metered + non-net-metered)
87.6MW
2024
Source & method Sum of EIA-861 utility-reported nameplate capacity over leaf technology classes, excluding storage and source rollup rows; utility x state grain; no locations; not part of the EIA-860 plant inventory
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
10 of 10 reporting utilities included.
net-metered + non-net-metered; the two EIA-861 schedules are disjoint by design
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metered capacity
80.8MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
10 of 10 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Non-net-metered distributed capacity
6.8MW
2024
Source & method EIA-861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule, leaf technology classes excluding storage
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · valid · final
3 of 3 reporting utilities included.
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Net-metering participation and exports Customer counts can include the same customer under more than one technology. Energy sold to utilities measures exports; it does not measure all generation at customer sites.
Net-metered customers
10,058count
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 1 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering customer count over leaf technology classes; a customer with two technologies can be counted twice by the source
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
9 of 10 reporting utilities included.
1 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Energy sold back to the utility by net-metered customers
7MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 9 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 net metering schedule; export to the utility, not customer generation
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
1 of 10 reporting utilities included.
9 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage Power rating in MW and energy capacity in MWh are separate measurements. These storage quantities are excluded from the generation capacity above.
Distributed storage capacity
3MW
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 7 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes (storage_pv, storage_nonpv, all_storage); power rating, kept separate from generation capacity
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
3 of 10 reporting utilities included.
7 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Distributed storage energy capacity
1MWh
2024
Partial or uncertain coverage: 9 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
Source & method EIA-861 storage technology classes; usable energy as reported
2024 calendar year · reported · derived · suspect · final
1 of 10 reporting utilities included.
9 of 10 reporting utilities have no value for this metric
distributed_observation; year=2024; state=MT
Publisher & attribution ↗ Released record JSON ↗
Supplied to Oregon end users · DEQ Oregon DEQ’s own statewide total of the electricity every reporting supplier delivered to Oregon end users, 2010–2024. Plant filters do not change these figures.
Electricity supplied to Oregon end users, all suppliers
62,420,108MWh
2024
Source & method Oregon DEQ Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: the MWh in the TOTAL row of DEQ's supplier table, the electricity all reporting suppliers delivered to Oregon end users in the year (OAR 340-215-0120), as DEQ totals it. DEQ's inventory of electricity supplied, not generation in Oregon
2024 calendar year · reported · direct · valid · final
Emissions and Power by Year!AR54
Publisher & attribution ↗ Cite this released fact ↗ Emissions DEQ attributes to that electricity, all suppliers
16,557,252t CO2e
2024· estimated
Source & method Oregon DEQ Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: the anthropogenic emissions in the TOTAL row of DEQ's supplier table, computed by DEQ's reporting system from its emission factors (unspecified power 0.428 t CO2e/MWh). An attribution from emission factors, not a stack measurement, and not a compliance determination under ORS 469A.410
2024 calendar year · estimated · direct · valid · final
Emissions and Power by Year!AS54
Publisher & attribution ↗ Cite this released fact ↗ Emission intensity DEQ reports, all suppliers
0.265t CO2e/MWh
2024· estimated
Source & method Oregon DEQ's Emission Intensity in the TOTAL row of its supplier table: the emissions it attributes to all Oregon deliveries divided by those MWh, as DEQ publishes it
2024 calendar year · estimated · direct · valid · final
Emissions and Power by Year!AT54
Publisher & attribution ↗ Cite this released fact ↗ Bonneville Power Administration 29.3% · 18,270,406 MWh Natural Gas 20.4% · 12,742,941 MWh Unspecified 17.4% · 10,833,231 MWh Hydro 11.7% · 7,292,022 MWh Coal 8.3% · 5,174,889 MWh Wind 7.8% · 4,876,380 MWh Solar 3.9% · 2,433,311 MWh Biomass 0.7% · 446,817 MWh Tacoma 0.3% · 195,857 MWh Geothermal 0.1% · 70,561 MWh Other Anthropogenic 0.1% · 45,458 MWh Biogas 0.1% · 36,670 MWh Fuel Oil 0.0% · 1,557 MWh Hydrogen Fuel Cell 0.0% · 9 MWh Bonneville Power Administration: 29.3% of the MWh in DEQ’s TOTAL row; unspecified purchases: 17.4%.
By year MWh supplied to Oregon end users and the emissions DEQ attributes to them; not generation, not a compliance finding Years side by side, with no change computed between them: DEQ's workbook does not state that its method is the same every year, and it publishes fuel types from 2019, “when data collection was standardized in the Your DEQ Online reporting system”.
DEQ's own TOTAL row in its supplier table (Emissions and Power by Year): the electricity all reporting suppliers delivered to Oregon end users in the year, on DEQ's basis (OAR 340-215-0120: specified sources at the busbar or with DEQ's 2% transmission-loss factor, unspecified purchases, a multi-jurisdictional utility's Oregon retail sales including losses), and the anthropogenic emissions DEQ computes for it from its emission factors. Published as DEQ totals it, never a sum of supplier rows made here.
DEQ's inventory of electricity supplied to Oregon end users: not generation in Oregon, and not a compliance finding. Fuel types as DEQ names them: Bonneville Power Administration, Powerex and Tacoma are purchases from those systems, kept as their own categories and never resolved to plants. A year's fuel-type MWh are summed here from DEQ's Raw Data rows and shown only where they sum to DEQ's TOTAL row within 1 MWh; shares are of that TOTAL row.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, 2010-2024 Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Electricity Use · DEQ's own electricity supplier workbook (2010–2024) ↗
Released record JSON ↗
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