List of power stations in Missouri
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Missouri. In 2018, Missouri had a total summer capacity of 21,078 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 85,095 GWh.[2] Missouri's electrical energy generation mix in May 2020 was 67% coal, 7% natural gas, 18% nuclear, 2% hydroelectric and 6% other renewables.[1]
Sources of Missouri electricity generation: May 2020 [1]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the following were the top ten plants in Missouri in 2014 by amount of power produced:[3]
| Plant | Primary power source | Owner | Net summer capacity (in MW) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labadie | Coal | Ameren Corporation | 2,371 | |
| Iatan | Coal | Kansas City Power & Light Co. | 1,594
| |
| Callaway (Callaway Nuclear Generating Station) | Nuclear | Ameren Corporation | 1,193 | Missouri's only nuclear power plant; began operations in 1984.[4] |
| Rush Island | Coal | Ameren Corporation | 1,182 | |
| New Madrid | Coal | Associated Electric Coop, Inc. | 1,154 | |
| Thomas Hill | Coal | Associated Electric Coop, Inc. | 1,133 | |
| Sioux | Coal | Ameren Corporation | 974 | |
| Hawthorn | Coal | Kansas City Power & Light Co. | 948 | |
| Meramec | Coal | Ameren Corporation | 938 | Set to close in 2022.[5] |
| Dogwood Energy Facility | Natural gas | Dogwood Power Management, LLC | 616 | |
| Sibley Generating Station | Coal | Kansas City Power & Light | 524 [6] | Closed in December 2018. |
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources reports that the state additionally has 9 pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities and 20 conventional hydroelectric plants; the latter including the Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, which has a capacity of 176 MW,[7] and the Table Rock Dam on the White River, close to Branson.[8]
Missouri's largest solar farm is located in Greene County, on a 57-acre plot owned by City Utilities, and is operated by Strata Solar. It generates a mean of 4.95 MW that contribute to City Utilities' transmission grid.[9]
According to the Sierra Club, there were as of 2016 a total of 16 coal-fired power plants in Missouri, a decrease from 2012, when there were 23.[10] 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.[11] 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).[12]
References
- "Missouri - State Energy Profile Overview - EIA". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
- Missouri Electricity Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, September 12, 2020
- Table 2: Ten largest plants by generation capacity, 2014 in U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860, Annual Electric Generator Report.
- Jacob Barker, Feds extend license for Ameren's Callaway nuclear plant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 9, 2015).
- https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ameren-plans-to-replace-coal-plants-with-gas-renewables/article_f5fb7218-899c-5275-8b31-75b2cc5e566f.html
- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sibley_Generating_Station
- Energy For Missouri: Today and Tomorrow - Educator's Guide, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, p. 26.
- Table Rock Lake: Dam and Lake Information, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Thomas Gounley, Missouri's largest solar farm is producing power, Springfield News-Leader (July 19, 2014).
- Missouri Beyond Coal, Sierra Club (accessed September 14, 2016).
- Matthew Bandyk, Missouri City Gives Up on Coal, Closes Plant, SNL Financial (republished at Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis) (October 13, 2015).
- KCP&L Announces Plans to Cease Burning Coal at Three Power Plants (press release), Kansas City Power & Light Co. (January 20, 2015).
