Power Plants in Iowa

308 plants · 25.2 GW total capacity

Iowa has 308 power plants with 25.2 GW total capacity. The generation mix includes 123 wind, 90 oil, 38 gas plants.

Largest is Walter Scott Jr Energy Center (1648 MW Sub. Coal); oldest active is Keokuk (1913); newest is Clinton Schools (2025); top owner is Berkshire Hathaway (55 plants).

82 interconnection queue projects in Iowa totaling 15.9 GW of proposed capacity.

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By Fuel Type

Coal

8 plants · 5.3 GW

other

6 plants · 25 MW

Hydro

4 plants · 184 MW

Battery

4 plants · 10 MW

All Plants (sorted by capacity)

Walter Scott Jr Energy Center — 1648 MW Sub. Coal
Louisa — 812 MW Sub. Coal
Ottumwa — 726 MW Sub. Coal
Marshalltown Generating Station — 709 MW Natural Gas
George Neal South — 696 MW Sub. Coal
Emery Station — 603 MW Natural Gas
George Neal North — 584 MW Sub. Coal
Greater Des Moines — 576 MW Natural Gas
Highland Wind Project (IA) — 502 MW Wind
Orient Wind Farm — 501 MW Wind
Rolling Hills Wind Farm — 484 MW Wind
Beaver Creek Wind — 340 MW Wind
Palo Alto Wind Farm — 340 MW Wind
North English — 340 MW Wind
Muscatine Plant #1 — 311 MW Sub. Coal
Arbor Hill Wind Farm — 310 MW Wind
Ida Grove Wind — 301 MW Wind
Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm — 300 MW Wind
Upland Prairie — 299 MW Wind
Archer Daniels Midland Cedar Rapids — 295 MW Sub. Coal
Burlington (IA) — 291 MW Natural Gas
Pomeroy Wind Farm — 286 MW Wind
Lundgren Wind Project — 271 MW Wind
Electrifarm — 264 MW Natural Gas
Southern Hills Wind Farm — 254 MW Wind
Diamond Trail Wind Farm — 253 MW Wind
O'Brien Wind — 250 MW Wind
Wever Solar (150MW) — 249 MW Solar
Great Pathfinder Wind — 224 MW Wind
Shenandoah Hills Wind Farm — 214 MW Wind
Glaciers Edge Wind Project — 212 MW Wind
Eclipse Wind Farm — 207 MW Wind
Ledyard Windpower, LLC — 207 MW Wind
Plymouth Wind — 203 MW Wind
Chickasaw Wind Farm — 202 MW Wind
Whispering Willow North — 201 MW Wind
Century — 201 MW Wind
Ida Grove II — 201 MW Wind
FPL Energy Crystal Lake Wind II LLC — 200 MW Wind
Heartland Divide II — 200 MW Wind
Golden Plains — 200 MW Wind
Whispering Willow Wind Farm - East — 200 MW Wind
Turtle Creek Wind Farm LLC — 199 MW Wind
Prairie Creek — 199 MW Natural Gas
Marshalltown — 189 MW Natural Gas
Exira — 182 MW Natural Gas
Archer Daniels Midland Clinton — 180 MW Sub. Coal
Pleasant Hill — 180 MW Natural Gas
Intrepid — 176 MW Wind
Adair Wind Farm — 175 MW Wind
English Farms — 172 MW Wind
Salt Creek Wind — 169 MW Wind
Prairie Wind Farm — 168 MW Wind
Walnut Wind Farm — 165 MW Wind
Carroll Wind Farm — 159 MW Wind
Barton Windpower LLC — 158 MW Wind
Sycamore (IA) — 158 MW Natural Gas
Adams Wind — 154 MW Wind
Kossuth — 152 MW Wind
Vienna Wind Farm — 150 MW Wind
Garden Wind LLC — 150 MW Wind
Rock Creek Solar — 150 MW Solar
FPL Energy Crystal Lake Wind LLC — 150 MW Wind
FPL Energy Story Wind LLC — 150 MW Wind
Pleasant Creek Unit 2 — 150 MW Solar
Wellsburg Wind Project — 141 MW Wind
Richland (IA) — 131 MW Wind
River Hills — 128 MW Natural Gas
Keokuk — 125 MW Hydro
Laurel Wind Farm — 123 MW Wind
Macksburg Wind Project — 120 MW Wind
Earl F Wisdom — 119 MW Natural Gas
Summit Lake — 119 MW Natural Gas
Storm Lake 1 — 114 MW Wind
Contrail Wind Farm — 112 MW Wind
Morning Light Wind Farm — 111 MW Wind
Ames Electric Services Power Plant — 109 MW Natural Gas
Victory Wind Farm — 105 MW Wind
Heartland Divide Wind Project, LLC — 104 MW Wind
Wapello Solar LLC — 100 MW Solar
Holliday Creek Solar — 100 MW Solar
Coggon Solar LLC — 100 MW Solar
New Harvest Wind Project LLC — 100 MW Wind
Lost Lakes Wind Farm LLC — 100 MW Wind
Crane Creek Wind Energy Center — 99 MW Wind
Franklin County Wind Farm — 99 MW Wind
Osceola Windpower LLC — 98 MW Wind
Hancock County Wind Energy Center — 98 MW Wind
Ivester Wind Farm — 91 MW Wind
Lime Creek — 90 MW Distillate Oil
Roquette America — 84 MW Natural Gas
Storm Lake II — 80 MW Wind
Northern Iowa Windpower II — 80 MW Wind
Charles City Wind Farm — 80 MW Wind
Old Gold Energy Center, LLC — 80 MW Wind
Sac County Wind, LLC — 80 MW Wind
Pocahontas Prairie Wind Farm — 80 MW Wind
Ames GT — 79 MW Distillate Oil
Coralville GT — 72 MW Natural Gas
Kossuth County Wind — 70 MW Wind
Saratoga Wind Farm — 66 MW Wind
Crystal Lake 3 LLC — 66 MW Wind
Independence Wind Farm — 55 MW Wind
Red Rock Hydro Plant — 55 MW Hydro
Streeter Station — 52 MW Natural Gas
Rippey Wind Farm — 50 MW Wind
Pleasant Creek Unit 1 — 50 MW Solar
Creston Solar (50 MW) — 50 MW Solar
Osceola Windpower II — 50 MW Wind
Flying Cloud Power Partners LLC — 44 MW Wind
Gas Turbine (IA) — 43 MW Natural Gas
Hawkeye Power Partners LLC — 42 MW Wind
Cerro Gordo Wind Farm — 42 MW Wind
Indianola — 41 MW Distillate Oil
Elk Wind Farm — 41 MW Wind
University of Iowa Main Power Plant — 41 MW Natural Gas
Cargill Corn Milling Division — 40 MW Natural Gas
Iowa State University — 40 MW Natural Gas
Prescott Wind Farm — 39 MW Wind
Merl Parr — 36 MW Natural Gas
Hawkeye Wind Farm — 35 MW Wind
Top of Iowa Windfarm III — 30 MW Wind
Pella Peaking — 28 MW Distillate Oil
New Hampton — 27 MW Natural Gas
Waverly Municipal Electric North Plant — 25 MW Distillate Oil
Arbor Hill Solar — 25 MW Solar
Maquoketa 1 — 24 MW Natural Gas
Mt Pleasant — 24 MW Distillate Oil
MPW Solar 1 — 24 MW Solar
Spencer Gas Turbine — 24 MW Kerosene
Forest City Light Plant — 22 MW Distillate Oil
Amana Society Service Company — 22 MW Distillate Oil
Webster City — 21 MW Distillate Oil
Crosswind Energy Project — 21 MW Wind
Carroll Area Wind Farm — 21 MW Wind
Shenandoah — 20 MW Distillate Oil
Winnebago Wind Power Project — 20 MW Wind
Osage (IA) — 19 MW Natural Gas
Waterloo Lundquist — 18 MW Distillate Oil
Lake Mills — 18 MW Distillate Oil
Winterset — 18 MW Distillate Oil
Vinton — 18 MW Natural Gas
West Liberty — 17 MW Distillate Oil
Algona — 16 MW Distillate Oil
Knoxville Industrial — 16 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 9106 Rockwell CR — 16 MW Distillate Oil
Estherville — 16 MW Natural Gas
Hardin Hilltop Wind LLC — 15 MW Wind
NCAH Central Utility Plant — 14 MW Distillate Oil
Story City — 14 MW Distillate Oil
South Plant (IA) — 12 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 9107 JBS USA — 11 MW Distillate Oil
Metro Methane Recovery Facility — 11 MW Landfill Gas
Lamoni Municipal Utilities — 11 MW Distillate Oil
Iowa Lakes Superior Wind Farm — 11 MW Wind
Lakota Wind Wind Farm — 11 MW Wind
Atlantic — 10 MW Natural Gas
Montezuma — 10 MW Distillate Oil
Bellevue — 10 MW Distillate Oil
Tipton — 9 MW Distillate Oil
Wilton — 9 MW Distillate Oil
John Deere Dubuque Works — 9 MW Distillate Oil
Grundy Center City Light Plant — 9 MW Distillate Oil
Bloomfield — 9 MW Natural Gas
NLMU Diesel — 8 MW Distillate Oil
North Generation Plant — 8 MW Distillate Oil
Maquoketa 2 — 8 MW Distillate Oil
Junction Hilltop Wind Farm — 8 MW Wind
CED Manchester Wind — 8 MW Wind
CED Centerville Wind — 8 MW Wind
Manning — 8 MW Distillate Oil
Archer Daniels Midland Des Moines — 8 MW Natural Gas
CED Mason City Wind — 8 MW Wind
Otter Creek Ethanol Poet - Ashton — 8 MW Natural Gas
University of Northern Iowa — 8 MW Natural Gas
Laurens — 8 MW Distillate Oil
Cascade — 7 MW Distillate Oil
Franklin County Solar — 7 MW Solar
Corning — 7 MW Distillate Oil
West Bend — 7 MW Distillate Oil
Milford — 7 MW Distillate Oil
State Center — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Lenox — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD0201 Ingredion — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Farmers Electric Cooperative - Kalona — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Allendorf — 6 MW Wind
Alliant SBD 9203 Profol — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 8602 Marion Sub — 6 MW Distillate Oil
Coon Rapids II — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Phoenix Investors, LLC — 5 MW Distillate Oil
La Porte — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Sumner — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Sibley One — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Grinnell Customer Hosted Solar — 5 MW Solar
POET Biorefining - Jewell — 5 MW Natural Gas
POET Biorefining LLC - Corning — 5 MW Natural Gas
POET Biorefining - Gowrie — 5 MW Natural Gas
Downtown Generation Plant — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Deer Run Battery — 5 MW BESS
Cedar Rapids Community Solar — 5 MW Solar
Panora — 5 MW Distillate Oil
Durant — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Gilliam South — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Bancroft — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 9403 Aegon DC — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Hopkinton — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Alta Municipal Utilities — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Lake Park — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Villisca Municipal Power Plant — 4 MW Distillate Oil
West Diesel Generation Unit — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Lake Mills Gas Recovery — 4 MW Landfill Gas
Traer East — 4 MW Distillate Oil
POET Biorefining-Hanlontown, LLC — 4 MW Other
Neal Energy Center Solar — 4 MW Solar
Grinnell College — 4 MW Solar
Ogden — 4 MW Distillate Oil
West Dubuque Solar — 4 MW Solar
South Strawberry — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Preston (IA) — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 9205 A Y McDonald — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Traer Main — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Poet Bioprocessing Emmetsburg — 4 MW Natural Gas
Alliant SBD 9301 Prairie Farms — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Harlan — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Ottumwa City of — 3 MW Hydro
Graettinger — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Forest City Solar — 3 MW Solar
Michelangelo Wind 3 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Optimum Wind 5 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Optimum Wind 6 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Optimum Wind 7 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Optimum Wind 4 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Optimum Wind 3 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Leonardo Wind 1 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Venus Wind 3 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Michelangelo Wind 1 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Michelangelo Wind 4 LLC — 3 MW Wind
Johnson County Hills Solar — 3 MW Solar
Waterloo Solar (IA) — 3 MW Solar
Anita — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Rockford — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Des Moines Wastewater Reclamation Fac — 3 MW Bio. Gas
Stuart (IA) — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Oakdale Renewable Energy Plant — 3 MW Natural Gas
Waverly Community Wind Project — 3 MW Wind
REG Mason City Solar — 3 MW Solar
Little Cedar — 3 MW Solar
Decorah Battery — 3 MW BESS
Douglas (IA) — 3 MW Solar
Rock Rapids — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Gowrie — 3 MW Distillate Oil
Hy-Vee Customer Hosted 2.25MW Solar — 2 MW Solar
Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project — 2 MW Wind
Brooklyn — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Brooklyn City North Plant — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Dike City Power Plant — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Alliant SBD 9201 Norplex — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Primghar — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Coggon — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Traer South — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Anderson Erickson — 2 MW Distillate Oil
IA - City of Ames - Airport Road — 2 MW Solar
Wind GEM — 2 MW Wind
August Wind Farm — 2 MW Wind
Hampton Substation Energy Storage — 2 MW BESS
Dayton (IA) — 2 MW Distillate Oil
West Receiving — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Birch — 2 MW Wind
Eastern Iowa Solar — 2 MW Solar
Roseman — 2 MW Wind
Wapsie Valley Creamery Back Up Generator — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Earlville — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Iowa Lakes Community College Wind Farm — 2 MW Wind
Green Energy Machine — 2 MW Wind
Grand Junction — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Sky Volt — 2 MW Wind
Alliant SBD 9206 Donaldson — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Davenport Water Pollution Control Plant — 2 MW Bio. Gas
Bloomfield Municipal Utilities Solar — 2 MW Solar
Roeder Family Wind Farm LLC — 2 MW Wind
Luther College Wind Project — 2 MW Wind
Cumberland Rose — 2 MW Wind
Wiota — 2 MW Wind
Fontanelle — 2 MW Wind
Greenfield Wind — 2 MW Wind
Meadow Ridge — 2 MW Wind
Windwalkers LLC — 2 MW Wind
Bulldog — 2 MW Wind
Wolverine — 2 MW Wind
Traer Wind Project — 2 MW Wind
Story City Wind Project — 2 MW Wind
NLMU Wind — 2 MW Wind
Maple City — 2 MW Solar
Buffalo Center Wind LLC — 2 MW Wind
DPC Madison — 2 MW Solar
McGregor — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Cedar Falls Solar Farm — 2 MW Solar
Creston School Customer Hosted Solar — 1 MW Solar
ISU Customer Hosted 1MW Solar Project — 1 MW Solar
Clinton Schools — 1 MW Solar
Strawberry Point DPC Solar — 1 MW Solar
Iowa Hydro LLC — 1 MW Hydro
Sibley No Two — 1 MW Distillate Oil
Knoxville Battery Energy Storage — 1 MW BESS
AgriReNew — 1 MW Bio. Gas
Alliant SBG 9802 Toyota — 1 MW Natural Gas
Fareway Customer Hosted 1 MW Solar — 1 MW Solar
Perry Customer Hosted 1MW Solar Project — 1 MW Solar

Queue Projects in Iowa (82 projects)

MISO-J4113 — 787 MW Gas
MISO-J3932 — 646 MW Nuclear
MISO-J4114 — 525 MW Gas
MISO-J3701 — 400 MW Wind
MISO-J2268 — 400 MW Solar
MISO-J2945 — 350 MW Gas
MISO-J3798 — 320 MW Wind
MISO-J4056 — 310 MW Wind
MISO-J2369 — 300 MW Wind
MISO-J2436 — 300 MW Wind
MISO-J2469 — 300 MW Battery
MISO-J4006 — 290 MW Wind
MISO-S1111 — 263 MW Other
MISO-J3047 — 263 MW Gas
MISO-R5071 — 251 MW Nuclear
MISO-J2811 — 250 MW Solar
MISO-J3911 — 250 MW Solar
MISO-J2553 — 250 MW Solar
MISO-J2272 — 250 MW Solar+Battery
MISO-J4068 — 232 MW Wind
MISO-J2342 — 230 MW Wind
MISO-S1093 — 202 MW Battery
MISO-J1867 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J2002 — 200 MW Solar
MISO-J2078 — 200 MW Solar
MISO-J2545 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-J2989 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J2990 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J3324 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J3464 — 200 MW Solar
MISO-J3477 — 200 MW Solar
MISO-J3551 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-J3655 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J3713 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J3725 — 200 MW Solar
MISO-J3780 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-J3849 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-R5069 — 200 MW Nuclear
MISO-S1107 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-S1113 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-J4173 — 199 MW Battery
MISO-J3157 — 199 MW Wind
MISO-J4155 — 195 MW Battery
MISO-J3702 — 180 MW Wind
MISO-J2988 — 175 MW Wind
MISO-J2655 — 170 MW Battery
MISO-J2653 — 170 MW Battery
MISO-J3926 — 170 MW Wind
MISO-J2576 — 164 MW Wind
MISO-J2757 — 160 MW Solar

Showing top 50 of 82 projects by capacity.