Muscatine Plant #1
Coal power plant · Muscatine County, Iowa
Nameplate capacity
276 MW
Rank in Iowa
#22
of 305 plants
In service since
1958
April 1958
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Board of Water Electric & Communications
- County
- Muscatine County
- Generating units
- 3
- Share of state capacity
- 1.11%
- Rank among coal plants in Iowa
- #7 of 8
- EIA plant code
- 1167
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Conventional Steam Coal | 176 MW | 161 MW | 1983 | Operating |
| 8 | Conventional Steam Coal | 75 MW | 68 MW | 1969 | Operating |
| 7 | Conventional Steam Coal | 25 MW | 20 MW | 1958 | 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 Iowa
| Burlington (IA) | Natural gas | 291 MW |
| Pomeroy Wind Farm | Wind | 286 MW |
| Lundgren Wind Project | Wind | 271 MW |
| Electrifarm | Natural gas | 264 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 276 MW solar plant and a 276 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