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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
- 638
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 6,281
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 0.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 9,845
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 631 | 6,222 | — | 9,860 |
| 2025 | 638 | 6,281 | 0.7% | 9,845 |
| 2024 | 983 | 9,627 | 1.1% | 9,794 |
| 2023 | 1,021 | 10,186 | 1.1% | 9,976 |
| 2022 | 796 | 7,950 | 0.9% | 9,987 |
| 2021 | 952 | 9,591 | 1.0% | 10,075 |
| 2020 | 1,307 | 13,312 | 1.4% | 10,185 |
| 2019 | 991 | 10,056 | 1.1% | 10,147 |
| 2018 | 962 | 9,726 | 1.1% | 10,110 |
| 2017 | 897 | 10,248 | 1.0% | 11,425 |
| 2016 | 671 | 12,701 | 0.7% | 18,928 |
| 2015 | 1,740 | 15,965 | 1.9% | 9,175 |
| 2014 (5 of 12 months) | 636 | 3,871 | — | 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.