Meade

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

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Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine Operating

Commissioned: 1951
Net generation, 2025: 73 MWh
Grid: 345 kV to City of Meade - (KS) (SWPP)
Location: Meade County, Kansas
Operated by: City of Meade - (KS)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2025

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Technology: Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
Age: 75 years since 1951
Unused energy: 72 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
Heat rate: 11,890 Btu/kWh 2025

All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Grid	Nerc region MRO Report year 2025 Grid voltage kv 345 Transmission owner City of Meade - (KS) Balancing authority code SWPP Balancing authority name Southwest Power Pool
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025	868
Capacity factor, 2025	0.001
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025	11,890.4
Net generation (MWh), 2025	73
Balancing authority code	SWPP

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