Coal power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America. Approximate location 42.8492, -87.8336.
CoalWisconsinUnited States of AmericaSteamPre Construction
Elm Road Generating Station is a 1,402.6 MW coal power station in Wisconsin, United States of America. It ranks #410 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056068.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104274; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 1,402.6 MW, Elm Road Generating Station is well above the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #156 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.8492, -87.8336 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Elm Road Generating Station is a 1,402.6 MW coal power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America, Pre Construction 2010.
