Power plants in CanadaA directory of 1,210 power plants in Canada with a combined installed capacity of 172,197 MW, mapped and ranked from open data — by fuel, capacity and emissions.
Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert-Bourassa | Hydro | 5,616 |
| 2 | Churchill Falls | Hydro | 5,428 |
| 3 | Darlington | Nuclear | 3,736 |
| 4 | Bruce B | Nuclear | 3,390 |
| 5 | Bruce A | Nuclear | 3,220 |
| 6 | La Grande-4 | Hydro | 2,779 |
| 7 | Mica | Hydro | 2,746 |
| 8 | G.M. Shrum | Hydro | 2,730 |
| 9 | Revelstoke | Hydro | 2,480 |
| 10 | La Grande-3 | Hydro | 2,417 |
| 11 | Whitemud nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 2,200 |
| 12 | Pickering B | Nuclear | 2,160 |
| 13 | Sundance | Coal | 2,141 |
| 14 | Alberta Sundance power station | Gas | 2,121 |
| 15 | La Grande-2-A | Hydro | 2,106 |
| 16 | Lennox | Gas | 2,100 |
| 17 | Lambton power station | Coal | 2,000 |
| 18 | Saskatchewan nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 2,000 |
| 19 | Beauharnois | Hydro | 1,912 |
| 20 | Greenlight Electricity Centre | Gas | 1,864 |
There are 1,210 power plants in Canada in this open dataset, with about 172,197 MW of total capacity.
Robert-Bourassa is the largest at about 5,616 MW (hydro).
The most common plant type in this dataset is hydro (556 plants), across 10 fuel types in total.
Canada's grid carbon intensity is about 191 gCO₂/kWh, with 77.0% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
