Whitewater Valley
Coal power plant · Wayne County, Indiana
Nameplate capacity
94 MW
Rank in Indiana
#77
of 224 plants
In service since
1955
March 1955
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- City of Richmond - (IN)
- County
- Wayne County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.27%
- Rank among coal plants in Indiana
- #11 of 11
- EIA plant code
- 1040
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 61 MW | 65 MW | 1973 | Operating |
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 33 MW | 35 MW | 1955 | Operating |
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 94 MW solar plant and a 94 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