List of power stations in Missouri

The U.S. state of Missouri has a number of electric power stations.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the following were the top ten plants in Missouri, by amount of power produced, as of 2014:[1]

Plant Primary power source Owner Net summer
capacity
(in MW)		 Notes
Labadie Coal Union Electric Co. 2,371
Iatan Coal Kansas City Power & Light Co. 1,594
Callaway (Callaway Nuclear Generating Station) Nuclear Union Electric Co. 1,193 Missouri's only nuclear power plant; began operations in 1984.[2]
Rush Island Coal Union Electric Co. 1,182
New Madrid Coal Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 1,154
Thomas Hill Coal Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 1,133
Sioux Coal Union Electric Co. 974
Hawthorn Coal Kansas City Power & Light Co. 948
Meramec Coal Union Electric Co. 938
Dogwood Energy Facility Natural gas Dogwood Power Management, LLC 616

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources reports that the state additionally has nine pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities and twenty conventional hydroelectric plants; the latter includes the Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, which has a capacity of 176 MW,[3] and the Table Rock Dam on the White River, close to Branson.[4]

Missouri's largest solar farm is located in Greene County, on a 57-acre plot owned by City Utilities. The farm itself is operated by Strata Solar. The farm generates 4.95 MW, and the energy contributes to City Utilities' transmission grid.[5]

According to the Sierra Club, there are as of 2016 a total of sixteen coal-fired power plants in Missouri, a decrease from 2012, when there were 23.[6] A Missouri City coal-fired power plant operated by Independence Power & Light closed in 2015; the facility was aging (60 year old) and could not comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations.[7] In January 2015, Kansas City Power & Light Co. announced plans to stop burning coal at three of its generating units at Montrose Station, one unit at Lake Road Station, and two units at Sibley Station. Coal burning would cease in phases (two units ceasing at the end of 2016, two at the end of 2019, and two at the end of 2021).[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Table 2: Ten largest plants by generation capacity, 2014 in U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860, Annual Electric Generator Report.
  2. ↑ Jacob Barker, Feds extend license for Ameren's Callaway nuclear plant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 9, 2015).
  3. ↑ Energy For Missouri: Today and Tomorrow - Educator's Guide, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Table Rock Lake: Dam and Lake Information, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
  5. ↑ Thomas Gounley, Missouri's largest solar farm is producing power, Springfield News-Leader (July 19, 2014).
  6. ↑ Missouri Beyond Coal, Sierra Club (accessed September 14, 2016).
  7. ↑ Matthew Bandyk, Missouri City Gives Up on Coal, Closes Plant, SNL Financial (republished at Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis) (October 13, 2015).
  8. ↑ KCP&L Announces Plans to Cease Burning Coal at Three Power Plants (press release), Kansas City Power & Light Co. (January 20, 2015).
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