Sorted by capacity utilization, a list of the largest power plants in the United States.

This is a Wikipedia page with a list of the nation's largest functioning power plants of all types, measured in capacity:

List of largest power stations in the United States

It is tabular in form, and sortable. 107 Power plants are listed, by size, measured in nameplate capacity, annual generation, and one of the most important features of a power plant, reliability, written formally as "capacity utilization," in this table identified as "Capacity factor" and so on.

I invite readers to sort the table by Capacity Factor arrows so as to see the highest to the lowest. When one does this, one can count, that the top 30 most reliable plants are all nuclear plants, ranging from capacity factors for Calvert Cliffs in Maryland at99.57% capacity utilization to the South Texas Project at 85.57% capacity utilization.

The 31st most reliable plant in the United States, is a coal plant, Keystone in Pennsylvania, a plant that kills people whenever it operates normally, since air pollution is the largest, by far energy related killer outside of extreme global heating now underway.

Outside of hydro - we're fresh out of rivers to kill - there is one and only one so called "renewable energy" plant listed, the Alta plant in California, with a name plate capacity of 3,366 MW. It does not operate based on demand, but rather on the weather, weather actively destabilized by the failure of the 5.6 trillion bucks squandered on solar and wind junk in the last ten years It has a capacity utilization of 24.82%. The other 75.18% of the time, it relies on the redundant gas plants that dominate California's energy supply, despite all the horse shit from antinukes and "I'm not an antinuke" one sees around here.


If an antinuke tries to tell anyone that wind and solar energy are alternatives to coal, they're lying, because reliability matters. Every nuclear plant operating on the surface of this planet is a coal plant that isn't operating. Coal is filthy, but it is reliable.

(Push lightly on an "I'm not an antinuke" antinuke, and one can learn very easily about what overt and easily recognized dishonesty is.)

The goal of the so called "renewable energy" advocates has never been about attacking fossil fuels. It has been instead to attack the most reliable and sustainable form of energy there is, nuclear energy.

I thought this needed repeating.

As I noted recently elsewhere: