Michigan City
Coal power plant · LaPorte County, Indiana
Nameplate capacity
540 MW
Rank in Indiana
#19
of 224 plants
In service since
1974
May 1974
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co
- County
- LaPorte County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 1.57%
- Rank among coal plants in Indiana
- #9 of 11
- EIA plant code
- 997
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Conventional Steam Coal | 540 MW | 455 MW | 1974 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Indiana
| Fowler Ridge Wind Farm LLC | Wind | 588 MW |
| Whiting Clean Energy | Natural gas | 577 MW |
| Wheatland Generating Facility | Natural gas | 500 MW |
| Petersburg Energy Center | Battery storage | 500 MW |
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 540 MW solar plant and a 540 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