BC energy, from water to wire.
The generating stations, wind turbines, large dams and high-voltage lines in British Columbia's open records, on the land that shapes them. Then screen ground for wind and sun, play the power contracted to 2034, and see the fires burning near the lines today.
Generating stations...
MW on record...
Wind turbines...
Line, km...
Dams 15 m+...
3 m/s56.5810+
800 kWh/kWp1,0001,300
...of BC land passes this screen
A first screen from open data, not a site study: mean wind at 100 m (Global Wind Atlas, about 1 km cells here), sun on south-facing panels at latitude tilt (NRCan, 100 kWh/kWp classes), distance to the mapped high-voltage lines, and the typical slope of each square kilometre (terrain at about 175 m; a steep bank can hide in a flat square). Point at the ground to read it; click for the site card.
2026
LIVE
...checking BC Wildfire Service...
Perimeters of fires not yet out, as BC Wildfire Service maps them, updated during the day. A line is drawn hot within 10 km of a perimeter. Click a fire for its record.
Stations, by source
Network and structures
Heights are true terrain, raised 1.3 times up close and up to 4 times for the whole province so the mountains read from afar. Shapes are drawn larger than life so they read from afar, and shrink toward true size as you come close. Turbines stand where the national database puts them, with its hub height and rotor. A hydro station on a mapped dam takes the dam's crest and height; other stations grow with their recorded capacity, and dim ones have none on record. Pylons are illustrative: spaced along the mapped lines, because the public record holds the lines, not the towers. The light on the lines shows the network, not the direction of power: the record carries neither.
What the record holds
Reading the record...
- Generating stations
- Every power plant mapped in OpenStreetMap inside the province, with the capacity it records where one is given. A station mapped twice is counted once: two records of one source within 3 km, or of the same name and capacity within 15 km.
- Wind turbines
- The Canadian Wind Turbine Database, Natural Resources Canada: every turbine with its project, model, hub height, rotor and year.
- Transmission lines
- BC Transmission Lines, Province of British Columbia: the high-voltage network from BC Hydro, independent producers and private owners. The public version carries no voltage.
- Dams
- BC Dams, Province of British Columbia: active dams 15 m or taller, with height, crest length, type and year.
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