How many natural gas power plants are in Kansas?

Kansas has 64 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 4.0 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest natural gas power plant in Kansas?

Emporia Energy Center in Lyon County, Kansas is the largest, at 730 MW. It came online in 2009.

How many natural gas power plants were built in Kansas in 2025?

0 natural gas power plants came online in Kansas in 2025, with 0 MW of capacity.

Who is developing natural gas power plants in Kansas?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Natural gas power plants in Kansas

Kansas has 64 operating natural gas power plants with 4.0 GW of capacity.

Operating64

See planned natural gas power plants in Kansas

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Under 250 MW250–999 MW1 GW and up

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Kansas had 61 natural gas power plants online in 2016 and 64 in 2026

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Natural gas power plants online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest natural gas power plants in Kansas

Operating, by capacity

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Emporia Energy Center	Lyon County	2009	730 MW
2	West Gardner	Johnson County	2003	408 MW
3	Gordon Evans Energy Center	Sedgwick County	2001	375 MW
4	Riverton	Cherokee County	2016	268 MW
5	Garden City	Finney County	1979	256 MW
6	Hutchinson Energy Center	Reno County	1974	214 MW
7	Fort Dodge	Ford County	1969	149 MW
8	McPherson 2	McPherson County	1979	144 MW
9	Rubart	Grant County	2014	120 MW
10	McPherson 3	McPherson County	1998	116 MW

Natural gas power plants that came online most recently in Kansas

Newest first

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Washington	Washington County	2024	9 MW
2	Kansas Ethanol, LLC	Rice County	2020	14 MW
3	CML&P Generating Facility No. 2	Montgomery County	2017	56 MW
4	Riverton	Cherokee County	2016	268 MW
5	Goodman Energy Center	Ellis County	2016	104 MW
6	Wamego	Pottawatomie County	2016	15 MW
7	Rubart	Grant County	2014	120 MW
8	Jameson Energy Center	Finney County	2014	28 MW
9	Osage City	Osage County	2011	11 MW
10	Emporia Energy Center	Lyon County	2009	730 MW

The developer behind each project is on paid plans. See plans

How Cleanview tracks natural gas power plants

Operating natural gas power plants come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about natural gas power plants in Kansas

How many natural gas power plants are in Kansas?: Kansas has 64 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 4.0 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest natural gas power plant in Kansas?: Emporia Energy Center in Lyon County, Kansas is the largest, at 730 MW. It came online in 2009.
How many natural gas power plants were built in Kansas in 2025?: 0 natural gas power plants came online in Kansas in 2025, with 0 MW of capacity.
Who is developing natural gas power plants in Kansas?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.