Iatan

Coal power plant · Platte County, Missouri

Nameplate capacity
1,754 MW
Rank in Missouri
#2
of 139 plants
In service since
1980
May 1980

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
Evergy Metro
County
Platte County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
7.50%
Rank among coal plants in Missouri
#2 of 8
EIA plant code
6065

Generating units

Individual generating units at Iatan
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
2Conventional Steam Coal999 MW900 MW2010Operating
1Conventional Steam Coal755 MW717 MW1980Operating

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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LabadieCoal2,389 MW
New MadridCoal1,300 MW
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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 1,754 MW solar plant and a 1,754 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