U.S. flag An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock () or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Coal Power Plant Reinvestment
Visualization Tool

The tool serves as a public database and map for the purposes of enabling state and local economic development officials, project developers, and power plant owners to identify and pursue opportunities for plant and community reinvestment.

The Coal Power Plant Reinvestment Visualization Tool focuses on coal power plants that have been closed or set-to-retire, alongside key infrastructure characteristics that are relevant for potential reinvestment opportunities, including the opportunity to query these data based off pre-defined or user-set queries to identify opportunities for coal power facility reinvestment to support solar, wind, manufacturing, and nuclear. Data for visualization and query include, but are not limited to:

  • Electric Transmission Lines
  • EPA Brownfield Sites (assessed with Federal funding)
  • Petroleum Terminals
  • Ports
  • Railroads
  • Others

The tool will be updated periodically to provide relevant information to enable state and local economic development officials, project developers, and power plant owners to identify and pursue opportunities for, economic revitalization, and community reinvestment.

Click here or on the map below to open full screen.

For general questions or comments, contact [email protected].

Disclaimer

This application is designed to help identify and provide insights into closed, operating with planned retirements, and operating U.S. power plants with coal power generation, associated infrastructure, and conditions that are necessary to understand and evaluate reinvestment opportunities. The tool offers users the opportunity to apply pre-defined or custom data queries to subset these data to better identify coal power facilities to support solar, wind, manufacturing, nuclear, or other reinvestment opportunities. Within this application data are focused on U.S. power plants with coal generation, where at least one on-site generator utilizes or utilized coal as a fuel source, including planned retirements through 2058 (EIA, 2024).

Scroll to Top