City of West Plains Power Station
Natural gas power plant · Howell County, Missouri
Nameplate capacity
47 MW
Rank in Missouri
#65
of 139 plants
In service since
2000
May 2000
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
- Operator
- City of West Plains - (MO)
- County
- Howell County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.20%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Missouri
- #21 of 35
- EIA plant code
- 59664
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIT1 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 26 MW | 21 MW | 2000 | Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
| UNIT2 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 22 MW | 21 MW | 2000 | 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 Missouri
| Envoy Solar, LLC | Solar | 50 MW |
| Vandalia Renewable Energy Center | Solar | 50 MW |
| Station H | Natural gas | 43 MW |
| Carthage | Other | 42 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 47 MW solar plant and a 47 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 Missouri power plants · What Missouri actually generates