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North Omaha

Coal power plant · Douglas County, Nebraska

Nameplate capacity
645 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#4
of 138 plants
In service since
1954
July 1954

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
Omaha Public Power District
County
Douglas County
Generating units
5
Share of state capacity
5.31%
Rank among coal plants in Nebraska
#3 of 8
EIA plant code
2291

Generating units

Individual generating units at North Omaha
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
5Conventional Steam Coal218 MW206 MW1968Operating
4Conventional Steam Coal136 MW118 MW1963Operating
2Natural Gas Steam Turbine109 MW83 MW1957Operating
3Natural Gas Steam Turbine109 MW94 MW1959Operating
1Natural Gas Steam Turbine74 MW63 MW1954Operating

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 645 MW solar plant and a 645 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