The Kincaid Generating Station is a 1,319-megawatt Illinois coal-fired power plant located in Christian County.

It is located on one of the southern arms of Sangchris Lake, which serves as the plant's cooling pond.

The plant is adjacent to an Illinois and Midland Railroad line, which delivers the coal that it burns.

[1][2] Kincaid was commissioned by Commonwealth Edison in 1967 as a thermal generator of baseload electricity.

[3] Originally designed to burn Illinois coal, due to enactment of the U.S. federal Clean Air Act the plant, in 1995, the plant switched over to sub-bituminous, low-sulfur coal mined in the Powder River Basin in eastern Wyoming.