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Arvada
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 0% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2002
- Net generation, 2025
- 171 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Powder River Energy Corp (WACM)
- Location
- Sheridan County, Wyoming
- Operated by
- Basin Electric Power CoopSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Gas
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Basin Electric Power CoopSource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of Dec 31, 2023
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 24 years since 2002
- Unused energy
- 131 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 18,304 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 3,130 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.001 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 18,304.1 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 171 |
| Balancing authority code | WACM |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 7.5 MW
- Generators retired
- 1
- Capacity still in service
- 15 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 7.5 MW | Retired | December 2021 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 69 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Powder River Energy Corp
- Balancing authority
- Western Area Power Administration - Rocky Mountain Region
- NERC region
- WECC
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Timeline
- Stated Unit 3 scheduled to retire, 7.5 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
4 sourcesSources EIA-860M · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- EIA-860M
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)