List of decommissioned coal-fired power stations in the United States

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Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, at a capacity of 2,490 MW is the largest power plant to be decommissioned in the United States.
Main article: List of coal-fired power stations in the United States

This is an incomplete list of 22 decommissioned coal-fired power stations in the United States. Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants have closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas, (a result of the fracking boom) which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for 40% of the US's total electricity generation, as well as the decrease in the cost of renewables.[1]


Decommissioned coal-fired power stations[]

Name State Location Capacity(MW) Capacity Factor Annual Generation

(GWh)

CO2 emissions

(Tons/year) [2][3]

CO2 emissions/

Annual

Generation

Owner Fuel Type Retired Ref
Asbury  Missouri 37°21'41″N

94°35'21″W

232 Empire District Electric Company Unit 1: 2013

Unit 2: March 2020

 Virginia 38°15′56″N 77°18′51″W / 38.265423°N 77.314233°W / 38.265423; -77.314233 (Birchwood) 258 77 (2020) 65,032 (2019) 1355 (2019)

General Electric

Bituminous coal March 2021 [4][5]
Boardman  Oregon 550 Portland General Electric October 2020
 Connecticut 41°10′17″N 73°11′03″W / 41.17139°N 73.18417°W / 41.17139; -73.18417 (Bridgeport) 995 2,100 (2019) 806,838 (2019) 384 (2019) Public Service Enterprise Group Sub-bituminous coal June 2021 [6][7][8][9]
Bruce Mansfield  Pennsylvania 40°38′04″N 80°25′01″W 2,490 FirstEnergy November 2019
 Iowa 40°44′28″N 91°07′00″W / 40.741200°N 91.116670°W / 40.741200; -91.116670 (Burlington) 212 1,130 (2020) 1,194,481 (2019) 1042 (2019) Interstate Power and Light Sub-bituminous coal December 2021 [10][11][12]
 Alabama 31°29′17″N 87°54′38″W / 31.488167°N 87.910477°W / 31.488167; -87.910477 (Charles R. Lowman) 538 PowerSouth Energy Cooperative Bituminous coal October 2020 [13][14]
 Michigan 42°41′42″N 84°39′43″W / 42.694957°N 84.662078°W / 42.694957; -84.662078 (Eckert) 375 384 (2018)

44 (2019)

5 (2020)

484,156 (2018)46,403 (2019) Lansing Board of Water and Light Sub-bituminous coal April 2021 [15][16][8]
 New Mexico 35°24′58″N 108°05′00″W / 35.41611°N 108.08333°W / 35.41611; -108.08333 (Escalante) 257 1,209 (2019) 1,292,447 (2018) Sub-bituminous coal December 2020 [17][18][8]
Harding Street Generating Station  Indiana 39°42′34″N

86°11′48″W

698 AES Indiana 2016 [19][20]
Harllee Branch  Georgia (U.S. state) 33°11′38″N

83°17′59″W

1,539 Georgia Power April 2015
 Minnesota 46°17′27″N 96°02′35″W / 46.290791°N 96.043071°W / 46.290791; -96.043071 (Hoot Lake) 129 319 (2019) 356,720 (2019) 1118 (2019) Otter Tail Power Company Sub-bituminous coal June 2021 [21][22][23][24]
J.M. Stuart  Ohio 38°38′16″N 83°41′35″W 2,318 Dynegy (39%)

AES Corporation (35%)

American Electric Power (26%)

May 24th, 2018
Johnsonville  Tennessee 36°1′40″N

87°59′12″W

1,500 Tennessee Valley Authority Units 5-10: December 2015

Units 1-4: December 2017

 Montana 47°40′44″N 104°09′27″W / 47.678875°N 104.157368°W / 47.678875; -104.157368 (Lewis & Clark) 50 263 (2019) 314,567 (2018) Montana-Dakota Utilities Lignite March 31st, 2021 [25][26][27][28][29]
 Colorado 38°49′27″N 104°49′53″W / 38.824155°N 104.831411°W / 38.824155; -104.831411 (Martin Drake) 207 740 (2019) 1,046,153 (2018) City of Colorado Springs Sub-bituminous coal August 2021 [30][31][32][33]

[34]

Mojave  Nevada 35°08′42″N 114°35′19″W 1,580 Southern California Edison Bituminous coal 2005
Monticello  Texas 33°5′28″N

95°2′17″W

1,880 Luminant January 2018
Muskingum River  Ohio 39°35′18″N

81°40′57″W

1,529 American Electric Power Bituminous coal Units 1-4: December 2014

Unit 5: May 2015

Navajo  Navajo Nation

 Arizona

36°54′12″N 111°23′25″W 2,250 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (24.3%)

Salt River Project (21.7%)

LADWP (21.2%)

Arizona Public Service (14.0%)

NV Energy (11.3%)

Tucson Electric Power (7.5%)

Bituminous coal November 2019
R. Gallagher  Indiana 38°15′49″N 85°50′16″W / 38.26361°N 85.83778°W / 38.26361; -85.83778 (R. Gallagher) 280 285 (2018) 349,403 (2018) Duke Energy Bituminous coal June 1, 2021 [35][36][33][37]
 Michigan 42°16′14″N 83°07′29″W / 42.270523°N 83.124699°W / 42.270523; -83.124699 (River Rouge) 651 624 (2019) 690,194 (2018) Detroit Edison Sub-bituminous coal May 2021 [38][39][28][40]

See also[]

List of coal-fired power stations in the United States

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