Missouri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Energy=== In 2012, Missouri had roughly 22,000 MW of installed electricity generation capacity.<ref name=EIAMissouri>{{cite web |url=http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/Missouri/ |title=Missouri Electricity Profile 2012 |publisher=U.S. Energy Information Administration |date=May 1, 2014 |access-date=May 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429173448/http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/missouri/ |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2011, 82% of Missouri's electricity was generated by [[Fossil-fuel power station|coal]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.ded.mo.gov/energy/docs/Missouri_Energy_Profile_9_6_2012a.pdf|title=Missouri Energy Profile|author=National Association for State Energy Officials and the Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence|access-date=July 14, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603002338/http://ded.mo.gov/energy/docs/Missouri_Energy_Profile_9_6_2012a.pdf|archive-date=June 3, 2014}}</ref> Ten percent was generated from the state's only [[nuclear power plant]],<ref name="autogenerated1" /> the [[Callaway Nuclear Generating Station|Callaway Plant]] in Callaway County, northeast of [[Jefferson City]]. Five percent was generated by [[natural gas]].<ref name="autogenerated1" /> One percent was generated by [[hydroelectric]] sources,<ref name="autogenerated1" /> such as the dams for [[Truman Reservoir|Truman Lake]] and [[Lake of the Ozarks]]. Missouri has a small but growing amount of wind and solar power—wind capacity increased from 309 MW in 2009 to 459 MW in 2011, while photovoltaics have increased from 0.2 MW to 1.3 MW over the same period.<ref>[http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_installed_capacity.asp U.S. Installed Wind Capacity] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314233108/http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_installed_capacity.asp |date=March 14, 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Sherwood, Larry">{{cite web|url=http://irecusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IREC-Solar-Market-Trends-Report-2010_7-27-10_web1.pdf|title=U.S. Solar Market Trends 2009|last=Sherwood |first=Larry|publisher=Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)|date=July 2010|access-date=July 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925184512/http://irecusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IREC-Solar-Market-Trends-Report-2010_7-27-10_web1.pdf|archive-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> As of 2016, Missouri's solar installations had reached 141 MW.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missouripartnership.com/industry-strengths/empowered-energy-solutions/|title=Missouri Partnership {{!}} Economic Development {{!}} Empowered Energy Solutions|website=www.missouripartnership.com|access-date=May 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523182113/http://www.missouripartnership.com/industry-strengths/empowered-energy-solutions/|archive-date=May 23, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Oil well]]s in Missouri produced 120,000 barrels of [[crude oil]] in fiscal 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/geosrv/ogc/|title=Geologicaly Survey Program—Oil and Gas in Missouri|author=Missouri Department of Natural Resources|access-date=July 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716084546/http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/geosrv/ogc/|archive-date=July 16, 2013|url-status=live|author-link=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}}</ref> There are no oil refineries in Missouri.<ref name="Sherwood, Larry" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_smo_a.htm|title=Petroleum and Other Liquids—Number and Capacity of Petroleum Refineries|author=United States Energy Information Administration|access-date=July 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529123304/http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_smo_a.htm|archive-date=May 29, 2014|url-status=live|author-link=United States Energy Information Administration}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page