Garden City
Natural gas power plant · Finney County, Kansas
Nameplate capacity
256 MW
Rank in Kansas
#22
of 192 plants
In service since
1968
June 1968
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Steam Turbine
- Operator
- Sunflower Electric Power Corp
- County
- Finney County
- Generating units
- 4
- Share of state capacity
- 1.21%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Kansas
- #5 of 54
- EIA plant code
- 1336
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 98 MW | 97 MW | 1973 | Operating |
| S4 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 71 MW | 58 MW | 1976 | Operating |
| S5 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 71 MW | 52 MW | 1979 | Operating |
| S3 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 16 MW | 13 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.
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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 256 MW solar plant and a 256 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