@worldwideview/wwv-plugin-power-plants

WorldWideView plugin — Global power plants (thermal, hydro, coal, gas, and more).

Usage

This package is part of the WorldWideView plugin ecosystem. It provides the following capabilities:

• ID: power-plants
• Category: Energy
• Format: static

Data Sources

Feature coordinates and metadata come from the WRI Global Power Plant Database:

Global Power Plant Database (c) World Resources Institute https://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase

Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (see the dataset license). The database contains ~35,000 power plants of all fuel types (thermal, hydro, coal, gas, oil, wind, solar, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, waste, etc.) with plant-level Point coordinates across the globe. Plant locations vary in precision — most are plant-site coordinates from WRI/verified sources; see the dataset documentation for the accuracy caveats.

Installation

Typically installed via the WorldWideView Marketplace or discovered automatically. If installing manually in a Next.js setup:

npm install @worldwideview/wwv-plugin-power-plants

Architecture

This plugin adheres to the WorldWideView standard plugin structure. As a static plugin, it connects to the core Event Bus and renders map capabilities. The GeoJSON FeatureCollection is baked into data/data.json and raw-imported at runtime by an AutoStaticPlugin class (same pattern as wwv-plugin-data-centers).

Data Integrity

Run the fail-closed validator to check the data file:

node scripts/verify-data.mjs

Exits 0 on pass, 1 on any anomaly (FeatureCollection shape, Point geometries, coordinate ranges, required properties, duplicate ids).

Built for WorldWideView.