Nameplate capacity
512 MW
Rank in Utah
#7
of 131 plants
In service since
1986
May 1986
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Deseret Generation & Tran Coop
- County
- Uintah County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 4.46%
- Rank among coal plants in Utah
- #3 of 4
- EIA plant code
- 7790
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 500 MW | 458 MW | 1986 | Operating |
| 4 | Solar Photovoltaic | 13 MW | 13 MW | 2023 | 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 Utah
| Currant Creek | Natural gas | 567 MW |
| Faraday Solar | Solar | 525 MW |
| Gadsby | Natural gas | 433 MW |
| West Valley Generation Project | Natural gas | 217 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 512 MW solar plant and a 512 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 Utah power plants · What Utah actually generates