Vandalia Renewable Energy Center
Solar power plant · Audrain County, Missouri
Nameplate capacity
50 MW
Rank in Missouri
#64
of 139 plants
In service since
2025
November 2025
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Union Electric Co - (MO)
- County
- Audrain County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.21%
- Rank among solar plants in Missouri
- #10 of 37
- EIA plant code
- 69236
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VREC | Solar Photovoltaic | 50 MW | 50 MW | 2025 | 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
| Bowling Green Renewable Energy Center | Solar | 50 MW |
| Envoy Solar, LLC | Solar | 50 MW |
| City of West Plains Power Station | Natural gas | 47 MW |
| Station H | Natural gas | 43 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 50 MW solar plant and a 50 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