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Osage Dam

Hydro power plant · Miller County, Missouri

Nameplate capacity
208 MW
Rank in Missouri
#29
of 139 plants
In service since
1931
October 1931

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Union Electric Co - (MO)
County
Miller County
Generating units
8
Share of state capacity
0.89%
Rank among hydro plants in Missouri
#2 of 8
EIA plant code
2106

Generating units

Individual generating units at Osage Dam
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW31 MW1931Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW24 MW1931Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW31 MW1931Operating
4Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW24 MW1931Operating
5Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW31 MW1931Operating
6Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW31 MW1931Operating
7Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW31 MW1953Operating
8Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW31 MW1953Operating

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 208 MW solar plant and a 208 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