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West Receiving

Other power plant · Crawford County, Iowa

Nameplate capacity
1.8 MW
Rank in Iowa
#270
of 305 plants
In service since
1998
April 1998

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
City of Denison - (IA)
County
Crawford County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among other plants in Iowa
#84 of 90
EIA plant code
7853

Generating units

Individual generating units at West Receiving
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Petroleum Liquids1.8 MW1.8 MW1998Operating

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 1.8 MW solar plant and a 1.8 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