Missouri's Hawthorne Power Station Shuts Down Coal-Fired Unit

SUGAR LAND--October 22, 2014--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Workers at the Hawthorne Power Station, located in Kansas, City, Missouri, shut down its 594-megawatt (MW), coal-fired Unit 5 on Friday after a bearing was wiped. The plant is operated by Kansas City Light & Power, a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE:GXP) (Kansas City, Missouri).

Within this article: Details on the outage, including current schedules, suspected causes and affected capacity.