Lake Road (MO)
Natural gas power plant · Buchanan County, Missouri
Nameplate capacity
278 MW
Rank in Missouri
#23
of 139 plants
In service since
1950
July 1950
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Steam Turbine
- Operator
- Evergy Missouri West
- County
- Buchanan County
- Generating units
- 7
- Share of state capacity
- 1.19%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Missouri
- #10 of 35
- EIA plant code
- 2098
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 90 MW | 97 MW | 1966 | Operating |
| 5 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 85 MW | 65 MW | 1974 | Operating |
| 2 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 25 MW | 9.9 MW | 1958 | Operating |
| 6 | Petroleum Liquids | 24 MW | 20 MW | 1989 | Operating |
| 1 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 23 MW | 12 MW | 1950 | Operating |
| 7 | Petroleum Liquids | 19 MW | 21 MW | 1990 | Operating |
| 3 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 13 MW | 6.9 MW | 1962 | Operating |
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
| Atchison County Wind | Wind | 299 MW |
| Greenwood (MO) | Natural gas | 288 MW |
| Sikeston Power Station | Coal | 261 MW |
| Morris Solar | Solar | 250 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 278 MW solar plant and a 278 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