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Gary Works

Natural gas power plant · Lake County, Indiana

Nameplate capacity
161 MW
Rank in Indiana
#55
of 224 plants
In service since
1997
April 1997

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Other Gases
Operator
United States Steel-Gary
County
Lake County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.47%
Rank among natural gas plants in Indiana
#20 of 43
EIA plant code
50733

Generating units

Individual generating units at Gary Works
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
STG1Other Gases161 MW161 MW1997Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 161 MW solar plant and a 161 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Indiana power plants · What Indiana actually generates