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John Twitty Energy Center

Coal power plant · Greene County, Missouri

Nameplate capacity
603 MW
Rank in Missouri
#11
of 139 plants
In service since
1976
June 1976

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
City Utilities of Springfield - (MO)
County
Greene County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
2.58%
Rank among coal plants in Missouri
#7 of 8
EIA plant code
6195

Generating units

Individual generating units at John Twitty Energy Center
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ST2Conventional Steam Coal300 MW275 MW2011Operating
ST1Conventional Steam Coal194 MW184 MW1976Operating
GT1Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine57 MW52 MW1983Operating
GT2Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine52 MW52 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 603 MW solar plant and a 603 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