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Green River — Power plant · Coal · Kentucky Utilities Co
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Green River

Power plant · Coal

Key facts

Power plant · Coalran 28% of 2015 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1950
Net generation, 2015
656,724 MWh
Grid
138 kV to Kentucky Utilities Co (LGEE)
Location
Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2015
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2015
  • Coal
  • Oil

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
LG&E and KU Energy LLC

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Technology
Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
Age
76 years since 1950
All 3 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Parents
Name
PPL Corp
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100000001278
Unit ids
G100000103124, G100000103125, G100000114560, G100000114561
Location id
L100000103942
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110008360969
NAICS code
221112
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1007190
Balancing authority codeLGEE

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Retired
October 2015
First unit retired
December 2003
Capacity retired
263.6 MW
Generators retired
4
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Conventional Steam Coal37.5 MWRetiredDecember 2003
2Conventional Steam Coal37.5 MWRetiredDecember 2003
3Conventional Steam Coal75 MWRetiredOctober 2015
4Conventional Steam Coal113.6 MWRetiredOctober 2015

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
138 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Kentucky Utilities Co
Balancing authority
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company
NERC region
SERC
Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Ownership

2 companies2
CompanyRoleShareAs ofSource
Kentucky Utilities Co Operator EIA-860M
LG&E and KU Energy LLC Owner 100.0% Dec 31, 2023 EPA GHGRP

Timeline

  • Stated Units 3, 4 scheduled to retire, 188.6 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Units 1, 2 scheduled to retire, 75 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
  • EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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