Panther Creek Energy Facility
Coal power plant · Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Nameplate capacity
94 MW
Rank in Pennsylvania
#63
of 273 plants
In service since
1992
July 1992
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Panther Creek Power Operating, LLC
- County
- Carbon County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.18%
- Rank among coal plants in Pennsylvania
- #9 of 13
- EIA plant code
- 50776
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 94 MW | 80 MW | 1992 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Pennsylvania
| St Nicholas Cogen Project | Coal | 99 MW |
| Scrubgrass Reclamation CO. LP. | Coal | 95 MW |
| Archbald Power Station | Natural gas | 93 MW |
| West Point (PA) | Natural gas | 91 MW |
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 94 MW solar plant and a 94 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 Pennsylvania power plants · What Pennsylvania actually generates