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Sheldon

Coal power plant · Lancaster County, Nebraska

Nameplate capacity
229 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#18
of 138 plants
In service since
1961
January 1961

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
Nebraska Public Power District
County
Lancaster County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
1.88%
Rank among coal plants in Nebraska
#5 of 8
EIA plant code
2277

Generating units

Individual generating units at Sheldon
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
2Conventional Steam Coal120 MW112 MW1965Operating
1Conventional Steam Coal109 MW102 MW1961Operating

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 229 MW solar plant and a 229 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