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A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are about 2,500 coal-fired power stations, [ 1 ] on average capable of generating a gigawatt each.
Plant Bowen, the third-largest coal-fired power station in the United States. This is a list of the 214 operational coal-fired power stations in the United States.. Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants.
The following page lists 83 of the coal-fired power stations (including lignite-fired) that are 3,000 MW or larger net capacity, which are operational or under construction. If a station also has units which do not burn coal, only coal-fired capacity is listed.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 27 gigawatts of capacity from coal-fired generators is to be retired from 175 coal-fired power plants between 2012 and 2016. [18] Natural gas showed a corresponding increase, increasing by a third over 2011. [19] Coal's share of electricity generation dropped to just over 36%. [19]
Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural gas, oil shale and peat, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, hydro, solar energy, solar heat, tides and the wind. Only the most significant fuel source is listed for power stations that run on multiple sources.
Ford Rouge Power Plant: Dearborn: 345: Ran on coal with blast furnace gas and natural gas. J.B. Sims Power Plant: Grand Haven: 80: closed in February 2020. [14] [15] James De Young Power Plant: Holland: 63: Ceased burning coal in April 2016, being decommissioned in 2018. Marysville Power Plant: Marysville: 150 "Mighty Marysville" imploded ...
Bath County Pumped Storage Station: Warm Springs: Hydroelectric - Pumped-storage: 3030: Bear Garden Natural gas 559 Birchwood Power Partners, L.P. King George: Coal 242 Decommissioned Bellemeade Power Station [6] Richmond: Natural Gas, Oil 267 Decommissioned [7] Bremo Power Station: Bremo Bluff: Natural Gas (converted from coal in 2014) [8] 227 ...
Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, at a capacity of 2,490 MW, is the largest power plant to be decommissioned in the United States. This is an incomplete list of decommissioned coal-fired power stations in the United States.