The West’s remaining coal power plants

A map of the western United States represents coal power plants as spikes sized by the amount of power they generate. The most larges spikes are in Utah, Wyoming and Montana, including the Colstrip power plant.

Seattle

Colstrip

Portland

Net summer capacity

2,100 megawatts

1,400

Los Angeles

700

0

A map of the western United States represents coal power plants as spikes sized by the amount of power they generate. The most larges spikes are in Utah, Wyoming and Montana, including the Colstrip power plant.

Seattle

Colstrip

Portland

Net summer capacity

2,100 megawatts

1,400

Los Angeles

700

0

Five small-scale industrial power plants are not mapped.

U.S. Energy Information Administration

Sean Greene LOS ANGELES TIMES