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Lon Wright

Coal power plant · Dodge County, Nebraska

Nameplate capacity
172 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#22
of 138 plants
In service since
1957
August 1957

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
City of Fremont - (NE)
County
Dodge County
Generating units
6
Share of state capacity
1.42%
Rank among coal plants in Nebraska
#6 of 8
EIA plant code
2240

Generating units

Individual generating units at Lon Wright
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
8Conventional Steam Coal92 MW82 MW1976Operating
5OTNatural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine40 MW38 MW2003Operating
7Conventional Steam Coal22 MW21 MW1963Operating
6Conventional Steam Coal17 MW16 MW1957Operating
SLR1Solar Photovoltaic1.3 MW1.3 MW2018Operating
SLR2Solar Photovoltaic1.0 MW1.0 MW2018Operating

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 172 MW solar plant and a 172 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