Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Power Plants
GHG Data 
The power plant sector consists of facilities that produce electricity by combusting fossil fuels and/or biomass (Subpart C). This sector includes power plants operated by electric utility companies and combustion units in the industrial, commercial, and institutional sector that generate electricity for their own use or to sell to other facilities or to an electric utility company. The emissions from this sector are solely from stationary fuel combustion sources such as boilers, simple and combined-cycle combustion turbines, engines, and incinerators. Approximately 42% of power plants measure emissions using continuous emissions monitoring equipment. The remaining facilities use engineering calculations based on measured data.
- Location and emissions range for each reporting facility in the power plant sector (as of 4/6/12).
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Guam
This map shows the locations of direct-emitting facilities. The size of a circle corresponds to the quantity of emissions reported by that facility.
Power Plant Sector 2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reported to the GHGRP
- Number of facilities: 1,562
- Total emissions (CO2e): 2,326 million metric tons
- Emissions by category (CO2e):
- Combustion: 2,326 million metric tons
- Process: Not applicable
Biogenic emissions are NOT included in the total emissions or in the total emissions by process.