The Monticello Steam Electric Station was a 1.88-gigawatt coal-fired power plant located southwest of Mount Pleasant, in Titus County, Texas, US from 1974 to 2018.
Later the plant received rail shipments of coal solely from Peabody Energy's Rawhide Mine in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
[6][7] This retrofit complimented the LO-NOx burners already installed at Monticello to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
[8] With two units of the plant being idled, Luminant halted lignite extraction at nearby Sulphur Springs and Mount Pleasant Mines.
[9] It later restarted the units in March 2014 due increased demand for power generation from the 2014 North American cold wave.