GREENWOOD

How GREENWOOD compares

With 244 MW of capacity, GREENWOOD ranks 21st among the 92 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Missouri and 2nd of the 33 operating Oil plants in the state. It accounts for about 17% of Missouri's operating Oil capacity and 1.3% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 20th-largest of the 544 operating Oil plants in the database. Commissioned in 1975, it is older than 58% of the 89 operating Missouri plants with a recorded commissioning year. Its operator, KCP&L GREATER MISSOURI OPERATIONS CO, runs 6 operating plants in Missouri totaling 966 MW. It shares Jackson County with 6 other operating plants, including HAWTHORN and NORTHEAST.

Under the same EIA plant code, EIA-860 lists 5 generators at the site with 288 MW of nameplate capacity (this page's HIFLD capacity figure is 244 MW). Net generation was 172 GWh in 2024 (a 6.8% capacity factor). Its generators came online between 1975 and 2016.

Grid neighborhood

The nearest named substation is DOGWOOD (345 kV), about 4.5 miles away; the closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 161 kV line, under 0.1 miles away. Another 11 operating power plants totaling 3,273 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is HAWTHORN (1,070 MW, Coal). Within 50 miles are 3 mapped data centers; the nearest is Oak Tower in Kansas City, about 22.4 miles away.

Computed by Bywatts from HIFLD power plant, substation and transmission line records, EIA-860/923 survey data and PeeringDB data center locations; distances are straight-line. Sources and methodology