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Kearney

Hydro power plant · Buffalo County, Nebraska

Nameplate capacity
1.5 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#121
of 138 plants
In service since
2021
January 2021

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Nebraska Public Power District
County
Buffalo County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among hydro plants in Nebraska
#9 of 9
EIA plant code
2268

Generating units

Individual generating units at Kearney
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric1.5 MW1.0 MW2021Operating

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 1.5 MW solar plant and a 1.5 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