• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

Energy

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Solar panels provide power at the Lewis Lake Contact Station.
 

…building a low carbon, low energy footprint.

Yellowstone National Park is the largest consumer of energy in the National Park Service with many villages and a vast and varied assortment of aging buildings, many of which are significant to our past contributing to Historic Districts and National Historic Landmarks. Most buildings need energy efficiency improvements including updates to old and inefficient heating systems. Yellowstone strives to inspire energy conscious behaviors, make facilities more energy efficient, reduce the use of fossil fuels for all infrastructure systems, and assess opportunities for renewable energy.

 
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Goals and Objectives: Energy

 
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Did You Know?

Upper Geyser Basin Hydrothermal Features on a Winter Day.

Yellowstone contains approximately one-half of the world’s hydrothermal features. There are over 10,000 hydrothermal features, including over 300 geysers, in the park.