109,882 power plants, reconciled from 12 public sources and drawn on one map. Trace the electrons in your wall outlet back to the plants that made them.
Existing energy maps are toggles and tables built for experts. nrgmap is built for the curious. It answers the questions you actually have. Is gas expensive right now? Are data centers eating my grid? Where does my electricity come from?
Press play and watch the system get built, plant by plant, from Edison's first station to the data-center boom. Learn something you can repeat at dinner.
● SECURITY
Trace your utility, your fuel mix, and the marginal plant setting your price, right down to your ZIP code.
● COST
Generation, transmission, capacity. See why marginal pricing means you pay the most expensive plant running, not an average.
● AI DEMAND
Hyperscale facilities are reshaping grid load in ways that weren't visible five years ago. Watch the buildout that's reordering the grid.
Type a ZIP or use your location. See your utility, the plants supplying your region, your fuel mix, and what's actually in your electricity bill.
1880 to today. Plants appear as they were commissioned. Watch coal rise and fall, nuclear stall after 1979, solar and wind take over.
Every FERC docket, geolocated and summarized. The legal layer that generalist maps cannot replicate: interconnection queues, rate cases, pipeline approvals.
Edison switches on Pearl Street Station, the first commercial grid.
The REA wires the last American farm. Electrification complete.
Three Mile Island freezes US nuclear expansion for a generation.
Data centers begin reshaping grid demand. The AI boom accelerates this.
Every record in the catalog traces back to an authoritative public dataset, then gets cross-checked, deduplicated, and joined on location and name. The catalog represents a subset of global generating capacity; we frame it honestly as plants tracked from public data, not a total count of every facility on Earth.
Tracked across 218 countries, 109,882 plants, 9.13 TW of capacity. Every entry links to a full data page.
nrgmap is a free, public-data visualization of the global electric system. It tracks 109,882 power plants across 218 countries, totaling 9.13 TW of tracked capacity, all reconciled from authoritative public sources including EIA, WRI, IAEA, HIFLD, and FERC eLibrary.
From 12 public datasets including the WRI Global Power Plant Database, EIA (US Energy Information Administration), IAEA PRIS (nuclear reactors), HIFLD (US infrastructure), EPA eGRID, OpenStreetMap, Climate TRACE, Wikidata, GEM Trackers, ENTSO-E, and FERC eLibrary. Records are cross-checked, deduplicated, and joined by location and name.
The catalog currently tracks 109,882 power plants representing 9.13 TW of installed capacity across 218 countries. This is a subset of all generating capacity globally, framed as plants tracked from public data rather than a total count of every facility on Earth.
My Grid zooms the map to your detected location and shows your local utility service territory, the power plants within your region, your grid's fuel mix, and context about what's in your electricity bill. It's the fastest way to connect the outlet in your wall to the plants that supply it.
The Time Machine scrubs through the entire commissioning history of the plants in our catalog, from the 1880s through 2026. Watch coal rise as the dominant fuel, nuclear stall after Three Mile Island in 1979, and solar and wind ramp up in the last two decades. The buildout spans over 140 years of grid history.
Yes. nrgmap is a free, public-good visualization. No signup required, no paywall, no account needed. The tracked plant catalog, country pages, and fuel mixes are open to anyone.
No signup. No paywall. Just 109,882 tracked plants across 218 countries, ready to explore.
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