referencesource/power-plant-retirement-schedule

Planned US generating-unit retirements, as EIA published them in one named month's Electric Power Monthly

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• Last verified: 2026-09-24
• Stale after: 2026-11-03 (past this date, prefer the canonical copy — it re-verifies on a cadence this snapshot does not)
• Records: 1519

Every utility-scale US electric generating unit its operator has told EIA it plans to retire, as printed in a single named monthly edition of EIA's Electric Power Monthly: the planned retirement month and year, the plant and unit it belongs to, the operating company, the state, the net summer capacity in megawatts, the generating technology, the fuel and the prime mover. Each record is one generating unit as one edition reported it, and every page names the edition it was read from. Answers 'when is the J.H. Campbell plant retiring', 'which generating units in Illinois are scheduled to retire in 2027' and 'how much coal capacity is scheduled to come off the grid next year' — for the edition named on the page. Three editions are held — EIA's data for April 2026, its data for May 2026 and its data for June 2026 — so where a unit appears in more than one, the pages side by side show whether its planned date moved; 469 units appear in all three and 33 of them carry a different planned date in June than in April, among them all three J.H. Campbell units in Michigan, which moved from May 2026 to August 2026. No single page states the movement, because a record is one unit as one edition reported it. Earlier editions are recoverable: EIA overwrites the previous month's figure on its rolling table, but it archives every monthly issue permanently and each archived issue carries the same table, so an edition can be read back from the issue that published it. These plans do move — EIA's own coverage notes that 'these plans may be more subject to change than usual, with policy shifts recently delaying retirements at several coal plants' — so the edition stamp is part of the fact, not a footnote.

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Licence position

Facts extracted from the US Energy Information Administration's Electric Power Monthly, a US federal government publication. Plant names, identifiers, capacities and planned dates are facts and not copyrightable. Every record links back to the EPM table it was read from and quotes the row verbatim.

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

Sources

• https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/archive/june2026.pdf
• https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/archive/august2026.zip
• https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/archive/july2026.pdf

Fields

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