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Canaday

Natural gas power plant · Gosper County, Nebraska

Nameplate capacity
109 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#29
of 138 plants
In service since
1958
January 1958

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Steam Turbine
Operator
Nebraska Public Power District
County
Gosper County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.90%
Rank among natural gas plants in Nebraska
#9 of 30
EIA plant code
2226

Generating units

Individual generating units at Canaday
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Natural Gas Steam Turbine109 MW99 MW1958Operating

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 109 MW solar plant and a 109 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 Nebraska power plants · What Nebraska actually generates