Power plants and the grid in Missouri
Missouri has 139 power plants with 21.8 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 9.1 GW. The map shows 31 data centers in Missouri. Its interconnection queue holds 124 active requests for 29.7 GW.
Capacity by fuel
139 power plants with 21.8 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 9.1 GW from 8 plants (41%)
- Natural gas: 5.2 GW from 34 plants (24%)
- Wind: 2.4 GW from 14 plants (11%)
- Solar: 1.9 GW from 38 plants (9%)
- Nuclear: 1.2 GW from 1 plant (5%)
- Oil: 943 MW from 31 plants (4%)
- Pumped storage: 684 MW from 3 plants (3%)
- Hydro: 522 MW from 5 plants (2%)
- Biomass: 11 MW from 4 plants (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 1 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Labadie: Coal, 2.4 GW
- Iatan: Coal, 1.6 GW
- New Madrid: Coal, 1.2 GW
- Callaway: Nuclear, 1.2 GW
- Thomas Hill: Coal, 1.1 GW
- Sioux: Coal, 974 MW
- Hawthorn: Coal, 960 MW
- Dogwood Energy Facility: Natural gas, 657 MW
- State Line Combined Cycle: Natural gas, 627 MW
- Audrain Generating Station: Natural gas, 600 MW
Largest plants near St. Louis
- Sioux: Coal, 974 MW, 31 km away
- Trigen St. Louis: Natural gas, 33 MW, 5 km away
- Anheuser-Busch St Louis: Natural gas, 26 MW, 5 km away
- Southwestern Bell Telephone: Oil, 17 MW, 4 km away
- O'Fallon Renewable Energy Center: Solar, 5 MW, 43 km away
Largest plants near Kansas City
- Iatan: Coal, 1.6 GW, 50 km away
- Hawthorn: Coal, 960 MW, 11 km away
- Dogwood Energy Facility: Natural gas, 657 MW, 44 km away
- Northeast (MO): Oil, 392 MW, 4 km away
- South Harper: Natural gas, 321 MW, 49 km away
Largest plants near Columbia
- Columbia Energy Center: Natural gas, 140 MW, 10 km away
- MU Combined Heat and Power Plant: Natural gas, 71 MW, 1 km away
- Columbia (MO): Natural gas, 61 MW, 2 km away
- Fairgrounds: Oil, 55 MW, 41 km away
- Moreau: Oil, 54 MW, 48 km away
Largest plants near St. Charles
- Labadie: Coal, 2.4 GW, 38 km away
- Sioux: Coal, 974 MW, 24 km away
- Winfield Solar: Solar, 150 MW, 40 km away
- Trigen St. Louis: Natural gas, 33 MW, 33 km away
- Anheuser-Busch St Louis: Natural gas, 26 MW, 33 km away
Planned and under construction
16 generators planned, under construction or testing, 3.6 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 1.7 GW
- Solar: 1.6 GW
- Wind: 247 MW
- Battery storage: 31 MW
Grid operators
- SPP (ISO or RTO): 62 plants
- MISO (ISO or RTO): 46 plants
- Associated Electric Cooperative (AECI): 27 plants
- SPA: 4 plants
Data centers
31 data center sites on the map.
- City of St. Louis: 7 sites
- St. Louis County: 5 sites
- Jackson County: 4 sites
- Clay County: 3 sites
- Platte County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Tierpoint (3), XO Communications (3), Google (2), Meta (2), Online Tech (2), Amazon (1), AT&T (1), CenturyLink (1), Cielo Digital Infrastructure (1), Clayco (1)
Interconnection queue
124 active requests to connect 29.7 GW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 10.2 GW in 53 requests
- Natural gas: 8.3 GW in 19 requests
- Battery storage: 5.8 GW in 31 requests
- Wind: 3.4 GW in 10 requests
- Other: 1.6 GW in 4 requests
- Coal: 120 MW in 6 requests
- Hydro: 60 MW in 1 request
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain