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Coal power stations in the United States

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Amos Plant

The Amos Plant, formally the John E. Amos Plant, is a 2,933-megawatt coal-fired power station in Putnam County, West Virginia, owned by Appalachian Power and operating since 1971.

Baldwin Energy Station

Baldwin Energy Station, also called the Baldwin Power Plant, is a coal-fired power plant in Baldwin, Illinois, owned by Dynegy Midwest Generation and scheduled to retire in 2027.

Barry Steam Plant

The Barry Steam Plant, formally the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, is a coal- and gas-fired power plant in Bucks, Alabama, owned by Alabama Power, a Southern Company subsidiary.

Bayside Gannon power station

Bayside Gannon power station is the name for Tampa Electric's retired Gannon coal plant in Tampa, Florida, and its natural gas successor, the H.L. Culbreath Bayside Power Station.

Beckjord Generating Station

The Beckjord Generating Station, also called the Walter C. Beckjord Generating Station, was a coal-fired power plant in New Richmond, Ohio, retired by Duke Energy between 2012 and 2014.

Belews Creek Steam Station

Belews Creek Steam Station is a Duke Energy coal-fired power station in Stokes County, North Carolina, near Walnut Cove, operating since 1974 with a capacity of about 2,160 MW.

Belle River Power Plant

The Belle River Power Plant is a 1,270 MW power station in China Township, Michigan, owned by DTE Electric and converting from coal to natural gas peaking.

Big Bend Station

Big Bend Station is a power plant owned by Tampa Electric in Apollo Beach, Florida, opened in 1970 and partially converted from coal to natural gas in 2023.

Big Brown Steam Electric Station

Big Brown Steam Electric Station was a two-unit, lignite-fired power plant near Fairfield, Texas, operated by Luminant; the first large lignite station in Texas when it opened in 1971, it was retired in 2018.

Big Cajun II Power Plant

Big Cajun II Power Plant, also written Big Cajun 2, is a three-unit generating station in New Roads, Louisiana, burning Powder River Basin coal and natural gas since 1981.

Boswell Energy Center

Boswell Energy Center, also known as the Clay Boswell Plant, is a coal-fired power station on the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, operated by Minnesota Power.

Brame Energy power station

Brame Energy power station, formerly the Rodemacher Power Station, is a baseload power plant operated by Cleco Power near Lena, Louisiana, with three units totaling roughly 1,600 MW.

Brandon Shores Generating Station

Brandon Shores Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Baltimore, Maryland, built by BGE with units online in 1984 and 1991 and now owned by Talen Energy.

Brayton Point power station

Brayton Point power station was a fossil-fueled plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, on the Taunton River. At about 1,600 MW, it was New England's largest coal-fired plant until it shut down in 2017.

Bruce Mansfield power station

The Bruce Mansfield power station was a 2,490 MW coal-fired plant on the Ohio River in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, which operated from 1976 until 2019 and is being converted into a natural gas plant.

Brunner Island power station

Brunner Island power station, formally the Brunner Island Steam Electric Station, is a coal and natural gas plant on the Susquehanna River in York Haven, Pennsylvania, operating since 1961.

Campbell Generating Plant

The J.H. Campbell Generating Plant is a three-unit, coal-fired power station in West Olive, Michigan, opened in 1962 and operated by Consumers Energy on the Lake Michigan shore.

Cardinal Plant

The Cardinal Plant, formally Cardinal Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station with three units totaling about 1,800 megawatts on the Ohio River in Brilliant, Ohio.

Cayuga Generating Station

Cayuga Generating Station is a Duke Energy Indiana power plant in Cayuga, Indiana, on the Wabash River, with about 1,185 MW from coal-fired and gas units.

Centralia Power Plant

The Centralia Power Plant, also called the TransAlta Centralia Generating Station, is a coal-fired power station near Centralia, Washington, owned by TransAlta and formerly the state's only coal plant and largest greenhouse gas source.

Chesterfield power station

Chesterfield Power Station is a Dominion Energy power plant in Chester, Virginia, on the James River, once Virginia's largest coal-fired station, which retired its coal units in 2023.

Cholla Generating Station

Cholla Generating Station, also called the Cholla Power Plant, is an Arizona Public Service power station near Joseph City, Arizona, that stopped burning coal in 2025.

Clifty Creek Station

Clifty Creek Station is a coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River at Madison, Indiana, owned by IKEC and built in the early 1950s to supply a uranium enrichment plant.

Coal Creek Station

Coal Creek Station is a lignite-fired power plant near Underwood, North Dakota, the largest coal-fired plant in the state, sending power to Minnesota by HVDC line.

Colbert Fossil Plant

Colbert Fossil Plant was a coal-fired power station operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority on the Pickwick Reservoir in Colbert County, Alabama, from 1955 to 2016.

Colstrip Steam Plant

The Colstrip Steam Plant, formally the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, is a four-unit coal-fired power station in Colstrip, Montana, and the largest power generator in the state.

Columbia Energy Center

Columbia Energy Center is a two-unit, 1,112 MW coal-fired power station south of Portage, Wisconsin, online since 1975 and 1978, jointly owned by Alliant Energy, Madison Gas and Electric, and Wisconsin Public Service.

Comanche power station

The Comanche power station, also called Comanche Generating Station, is a coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, Colorado, owned and operated by Xcel Energy and the largest such plant in the state.

Conemaugh Generating Station

The Conemaugh Generating Station is a 1,872 MW coal-fired power plant on the Conemaugh River near New Florence in Indiana County, western Pennsylvania, commissioned in 1970.

Conesville Power Plant

The Conesville Power Plant was a coal-fired station in Conesville, Ohio, on the Muskingum River, run by AEP from 1981 until its final unit retired in May 2020.