Show on map
Backus Microgrid Project — Power plant · Oil · Connecticut Mun Elec Engy Coop
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Backus Microgrid Project

Power plant · Oil

Key facts

Power plant · Oilran 1% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2014
Net generation, 2025
638 MWh
Grid
14 kV to City of Norwich - (CT) (ISNE)
Location
New London County, Connecticut
Operated by
Connecticut Mun Elec Engy CoopSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2025
638MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
6,281MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
0.7%
Heat rate, 2025
9,845Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)6316,222—9,860
20256386,2810.7%9,845
20249839,6271.1%9,794
20231,02110,1861.1%9,976
20227967,9500.9%9,987
20219529,5911.0%10,075
20201,30713,3121.4%10,185
201999110,0561.1%10,147
20189629,7261.1%10,110
201789710,2481.0%11,425
201667112,7010.7%18,928
20151,74015,9651.9%9,175
2014 (5 of 12 months)6363,871—6,086
How these are worked out

Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.

Sources

2 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

Every source and license · Attribution

View at source