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Atlantic

Natural gas power plant · Cass County, Iowa

Nameplate capacity
10 MW
Rank in Iowa
#154
of 305 plants
In service since
1999
July 1999

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
Operator
Atlantic Municipal Utilities
County
Cass County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.04%
Rank among natural gas plants in Iowa
#30 of 42
EIA plant code
1124

Generating units

Individual generating units at Atlantic
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
6Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine10 MW9.8 MW1999Operating

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 10 MW solar plant and a 10 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 Iowa power plants · What Iowa actually generates