Alabama Gas & Biomass Plants 50 MW and under · EIA-860M, July 2026
with live OpenInfraMap grid and pipelines
Status
Fuel
Balancing Authority
Sector
Grid & Pipelines (OpenInfraMap)
Pipelines are DASHED. Power lines are SOLID.
Natural gas (OSM substance = gas)
Other petroleum (oil, fuel, NGL, LPG)
Other substance (CO2, nitrogen, water)
NGL = natural gas liquids. LPG = liquefied petroleum gas. Neither is pipeline natural gas, so they are kept out of the gas layer. Click a pipeline for its substance, operator and diameter.
Coverage limit. These are mostly long-distance TRANSMISSION pipelines from OpenStreetMap. Sampled live from these tiles at ten points across Alabama at zoom 10 on 2026-08-27: of 11,481 features tagged substance = gas, 11,412 were usage = transmission, 14 gathering, 12 facility and 43 not stated. Local distribution mains, the service that actually feeds a small plant, are almost never mapped in OpenStreetMap. A plant with no line shown may still have gas at the fence. Absence here is NOT evidence of no service. Confirm supply with the serving gas utility.
Alabama state boundary (US Census Bureau)
Line color = voltage
Under 10 kV
10 to 24 kV
25 to 51 kV
52 to 131 kV
132 to 219 kV
220 to 309 kV
310 to 549 kV
550 kV and above
Direct current (HVDC)
kV = kilovolt. Lines are drawn from OpenStreetMap, so coverage is good for transmission and patchy for distribution. Click any line for its voltage, operator and OSM record.
Base map
Color plants by
Legend
Operating
Retired
Planned
Circle size = nameplate MW of the shown fuels
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Plants shown
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MW shown
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Units shown
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Avg MW / plant
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M “Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory”, July 2026 edition, released 2026-08-26 (eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m, accessed 2026-08-27).
Filter: Plant State = AL. Two fuel families are mapped. Natural gas is EIA energy source code NG. Biomass is BLQ, WDS, WDL, LFG, AB, OBS, OBL, OBG, SLW and MSB. A plant is on the map when the nameplate capacity of at least one of those families at that plant is 50.0 MW or less; that family alone is filtered, sized and counted. A family above the cap is shown in the popup for context and is labeled there. Coal, petroleum, hydro, nuclear, solar and blast furnace gas are not mapped. Coordinates are the EIA-reported plant latitude and longitude. County names are shown title-cased; EIA reports some counties in upper case.
Base map: Esri ArcGIS Online. Dark Gray Canvas and World Topographic: Esri, HERE, Garmin, USGS, NGA, © OpenStreetMap contributors. World Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.