Top 10 Power Plant Owners in North America by Capacity

Duke Energy Corp, NextEra Energy Inc, Vistra Energy Corp, Comision Federal de Electricidad, and Hydro-Quebec are the top 5 power plant owners in Noth America by capacity as of March 31, 2022. Comprehensively, the top 10 power plant owners in North America had an active capacity of 414,260 MW as of March 31, 2022, where Duke Energy Corp was the highest (71,704 MW) and Entergy Corporation was the lowest (29,893 MW). In total, they generated revenue of $167,815 million, with an average revenue growth increase of 5.6%. The highest revenue increase was posted by Entergy Corporation (16.1%), followed by Southern Co (13.4%), and the lowest revenue increase was posted by Duke Energy Corp (5.2%). In terms of the geographic split, 8 out of 10 of North America’s top power plant owners are based in the US, while the other two are based in Canada and Mexico. They employed a total of 156,900 people in 2021. The United States of America-based Duke Energy Corp is the leading power plant owner in North America (by capacity). The company reported revenues of $25,097 million for the fiscal year ended December 2021 (FY2021), an increase of 5.1% over FY2020, due to new renewable projects as the company continued to expand its clean energy portfolio. The company is an integrated energy utility that undertakes the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity, transportation and sale of natural gas, and provision of related energy services in the Southeast and Midwest regions of the US. It also procures and markets electricity and fuel. The company employed 27,605 people in 2021. The US-based NextEra Energy Inc (NEE) is another leading power plant owner in North America (by capacity). NextEra Energy Inc (NEE) is an electricity and energy infrastructure company, which owns electric companies, Florida Power & Light and Gulf Power Co in Florida and owns NextEra Energy Resources. Through its subsidiaries, the company generates, transmits and distributes electricity, and holds investments in gas infrastructure assets. The company reported revenues of $17,069 million for the fiscal year ended December 2021 (FY2021), a decrease of 5.2% over the previous year.