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Holcomb

Coal power plant · Finney County, Kansas

Nameplate capacity
349 MW
Rank in Kansas
#11
of 192 plants
In service since
1983
August 1983

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
County
Finney County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
1.65%
Rank among coal plants in Kansas
#5 of 5
EIA plant code
108

Generating units

Individual generating units at Holcomb
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Steam Coal349 MW359 MW1983Operating

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 349 MW solar plant and a 349 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