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Yards Creek hydroelectric plant
61st-largest grid storage in United States of 101 · top 69% worldwide (#661 of 965)
- Operator
- Yards Creek Energy
- Owner
- LS Energy
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 453 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · United States · 101 ranked
- #1Red Lake Pumped hydroelectric plant3.0 GW
- #59Winter Ridge Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant500 MW
- #60Bison Creek Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant480 MW
- #61Yards Creek hydroelectric plant453 MW
- #62Juan Torres Mesa Pumped hydroelectric plant450 MW
- #63Seneca hydroelectric plant438 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Hopatcong Switching Station
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 33 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- PPL
- Substations in range
- 2
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Yards Creek hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 453 MW · hydro
- Lackawanna Sub PPL to Hopatcong Sub PJM 500KV8.5 km · Transmission Line
- Susquehanna-Roseland9.9 km · Transmission Line
- Portland (PA) power station11 km · Power Plant · 156 MW · oil
- Portland Generating Station11 km · Power Plant · 427 MW · coal
On the interactive map
Watercourse: Yards Creek
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)