THE DIRECTORY
Browse the world's power plants.
35,069 plants, 5.86 TW of tracked capacity, 168 countries — organised four ways. Pick a fuel, a country, a US state, or jump straight to the biggest plants on Earth. Every path leads into the live map.
By fuel
11 fuel types, largest first.
By country
ALL 168 COUNTRIES → China 1.47 TW United States of America 1.22 TW India 316 GW Russia 233 GW Japan 223 GW Brazil 148 GW Canada 144 GW Germany 125 GW France 112 GW United Kingdom 102 GW South Korea 99.5 GW Saudi Arabia 84.3 GW Spain 79.6 GW Italy 74.5 GW Australia 65.9 GW Mexico 62.4 GW Iran 61.4 GW Ukraine 52.3 GW Turkey 51.4 GW South Africa 50.4 GW Indonesia 48.8 GW Taiwan 41.7 GW Vietnam 41.4 GW United Arab Emirates 40.8 GW
By US state
ALL 52 STATES →The largest plants on Earth
The biggest tracked facilities by installed capacity.
01 Three Gorges Dam 22,500 MW 02 Baihetan Dam 13,050 MW 03 Xiluodu 12,600 MW 04 Surgutskaya GRES-2 8,865 MW 05 Simon Bolivar (Guri) 8,851 MW 06 Tucuruí 8,535 MW 07 Kashiwazaki Kariwa 8,212 MW 08 Itaipu (Parte Brasileira) 7,000 MW 09 East Hope Metals Wucaiwan Power Station 7,000 MW 10 Itaipu Binacional Dam (Paraguay Part) 7,000 MW 11 Grand Coulee 6,809 MW 12 Shaiba (sec) 6,794 MW 13 Datang Tuoketuo Power Station 6,720 MW 14 Xiangjiaba 6,448 MW 15 Longtan 6,300 MW 16 Gansu Wind Farm 6,000 MW 17 Krasnoyarsk 6,000 MW 18 Zaporozhye 6,000 MW 19 Hanbit 5,900 MW 20 Hanul 5,900 MW 21 Nuozhadu 5,850 MW 22 Az Zour South CCGT 5,805 MW 23 Chp-23 5,690 MW 24 Robert-Bourassa 5,616 MW
How this is organised
nrgmap is faceted, not a tree. Every plant sits at the intersection of its fuel, its country, and its region — so a single plant like Gravelines is reachable from France, from nuclear, and from the browse pages here. The data behind it all powers one live map.