Cimarron River
Natural gas power plant · Seward County, Kansas
Nameplate capacity
65 MW
Rank in Kansas
#70
of 192 plants
In service since
1963
October 1963
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Steam Turbine
- Operator
- Sunflower Electric Power Corp
- County
- Seward County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.31%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Kansas
- #14 of 54
- EIA plant code
- 1230
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 50 MW | 52 MW | 1963 | Operating |
| 2 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 15 MW | 14 MW | 1968 | Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
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 Kansas
| Great Bend - Sunflower | Natural gas | 82 MW |
| Marshall Wind Farm | Wind | 74 MW |
| Chanute 2 | Natural gas | 64 MW |
| CML&P Generating Facility No. 2 | Natural gas | 56 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 65 MW solar plant and a 65 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 Kansas power plants · What Kansas actually generates