Power Plants in Vermont

Vermont's power sector in numbers

Bywatts maps 60 operating power plants with 646 MW of nameplate capacity in Vermont. Hydro leads with 47% of that capacity across 41 plants, followed by Oil (20%) and Wind (19%). The inventory also includes 4 plants (576 MW) that EIA-860 lists as retired, 2 partly retired with no operable units of their recorded fuel and 1 never built; the largest retired plant is VERMONT YANKEE (563 MW, retired 2014).

The largest operating plants are KINGDOM COMMUNITY WIND (65 MW, Wind, GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP), J C MCNEIL (60 MW, Biomass, CITY OF BURLINGTON ELECTRIC) and BERLIN 5 (42 MW, Oil, GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP).

Of the 58 operating plants with a recorded commissioning year, 7 came online in 2000 or later and 7 in 2010 or later; the busiest decade for new capacity was the 2010s (123 MW).

The largest operators by operating capacity are GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP (29 plants, 258 MW), TRANSCANADA HYDRO NORTHEAST INC. (4 plants, 108 MW) and CITY OF BURLINGTON ELECTRIC (2 plants, 85 MW).

Retail electricity sales in Vermont reached 5.5 TWh in 2025, down 0.9% over ten years and up 0.3% year on year; residential customers took 40.7% of it. The average retail price across all sectors was 19.40 cents per kWh, up 34.8% since 2015.

The database also maps 3 named substations (none of the 3 with a recorded voltage is rated 345 kV or above), no data centers, 34 solar installers and 7 solar companies in Vermont.

Operating capacity by fuel

Retail electricity sales

Sources: HIFLD power-plant inventory (capacity, fuel, operator), EIA-860 (commissioning year, retirements, operable capacity), EIA retail sales and revenue series through January 2026. Counts are of plants Bywatts lists, not every generator in the state.