This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2024, Missouri had a total summer capacity of 20.4 GW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 66,876 GWh. In 2025, the state's electrical energy generation mix was 63.8% coal, 13.1% natural gas, 9.9% nuclear, 9% wind, 2.2% solar, 1.4% hydroelectric, 0.4% petroleum, and 0.1% biomass. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned photovoltaic panels, delivered an additional net 800 GWh of energy to the state's electrical grid in 2025. This was about half the amount generated by Missouri's utility-scale photovoltaic plants.
Nuclear power stations
Plant Owner Net summercapacity(in MW) Notes Callaway (Callaway Nuclear Generating Station) Ameren Corporation 1,193 Missouri's only nuclear power plant; began operations in 1984.Jacob Barker, Feds extend license for Ameren's Callaway nuclear plant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 9, 2015).
Fossil-fuel power stations
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Table 2: Ten largest plants by generation capacity, 2014 in U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860, Annual Electric Generator Report.
Coal
According to the Sierra Club, as of 2016 there were a total of 16 coal-fired power plants in Missouri, a decrease from 2012, when there were 23.Missouri Beyond Coal, Sierra Club (accessed September 14, 2016). A Missouri City coal-fired power plant operated by Independence Power & Light closed in 2015; the facility was aging (60 years old) and could not comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations.Matthew Bandyk, Missouri City Gives Up on Coal, Closes Plant, SNL Financial (republished at Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis) (October 13, 2015). In January 2015, Kansas City Power & Light Co. announced plans to stop burning coal at three of its generating units at Montrose Station, one at Lake Road Station, and two at Sibley Station. Coal burning would cease in phases (two units ceasing at the end of 2016, two at the end of 2019, and two at the end of 2021).KCP&L Announces Plans to Cease Burning Coal at Three Power Plants (press release), Kansas City Power & Light Co. (January 20, 2015).
Plant Owner Net summercapacity(in MW) Notes Labadie Ameren Corporation 2,371 Iatan Evergy 1,594 Rush Island Ameren Corporation 1,182 New Madrid Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 1,154 Thomas Hill Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 1,133 Sioux Ameren Corporation 974 Hawthorn Evergy 948 Meramec Ameren Corporation 938 Closed in December 2022. Sibley Generating Station Evergy 524 Closed in December 2018. John Twitty Energy Center City Utilities of Springfield 603Sikeston Power Station Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities. 235
Natural gas
Plant Owner Net summercapacity(in MW) Notes Dogwood Energy Facility Dogwood Power Management, LLC 616 James River Power Station City Utilities of Springfield 362.5 Formerly coal powered, converted to natural gas in 2015 Nodaway Associated Electric Coop, Inc 207
Renewable power stations
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources reports that the state has nine pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities and 20 conventional hydroelectric plants; the latter include the Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, which has a capacity of 176 MW,Energy For Missouri: Today and Tomorrow - Educator's Guide, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, p. 26. and the Table Rock Dam on the White River, close to Branson.Table Rock Lake: Dam and Lake Information, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In 2014, Missouri's largest solar farm was located in Greene County, on a 57-acre plot owned by City Utilities, and is operated by Strata Solar. It generates a mean of 4.95 MW that contribute to City Utilities' transmission grid.Thomas Gounley, Missouri's largest solar farm is producing power, Springfield News-Leader (July 19, 2014). Since 2017, the largest solar farm in Missouri is the Nixa Solar Farm and is owned by Gardner Capital and operated by MC Power Companies. It is located on 72 acres and can generate up to 7.92 MW for Nixa Utilities. In 2018 it supplied Nixa with about 9% of its energy needs.
See also
List of power stations in the United States
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