The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) interactive U.S. Energy Altas has an electricity map application and a data catalog, which include locations and data for
EIA is not the source for the transmission line and substations data. EIA provides the data to give users a better understanding of electric infrastructure. Users should review the metadata information to find the source of the data.
Users can access the data from the data catalog to explore and download data in shapefiles, spreadsheets, KML files, and geodatabase formats, or link to Application Programming Interface (API).
Much of the data for power plants that are included in the Energy Atlas data files are also in the "PlantYyyyy" file of the annual survey Form EIA-860 database. The county, state, latitude, and longitude of U.S. power plants are also in the monthly EIA-860M data files. EIA's Application Programming Interface (API) also contains the latitude and longitude of power plants.
EIA does not publish similar maps or geographic information on the location of electric power plants, transmission lines, or substations in any other countries.
Last updated: January 13, 2021