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Barkley
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 55% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1966
- Net generation, 2025
- 624,854 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Location
- Lyon County, Kentucky
- Operated by
- USCE-Nashville DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 624,854
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 2,132,004
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 54.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 624,854 | 2,132,004 | 54.9% | — |
| 2024 | 590,644 | 2,015,278 | 51.7% | — |
| 2023 | 500,481 | 1,707,642 | 44.0% | — |
| 2022 | 628,428 | 2,144,198 | 55.2% | — |
| 2021 | 619,075 | 5,475,100 | 54.4% | — |
| 2020 | 775,525 | 6,799,030 | 67.9% | — |
| 2019 | 572,013 | 5,093,776 | 50.2% | — |
| 2018 | 637,783 | 5,806,377 | 56.0% | — |
| 2017 | 812,899 | 7,489,238 | 71.4% | — |
| 2016 | 486,040 | 4,487,121 | 42.6% | — |
| 2015 | 544,038 | 5,069,891 | 47.8% | — |
| 2014 | 601,111 | 5,716,564 | 52.8% | — |
| 2013 | 486,904 | 4,645,551 | 42.8% | — |
| 2012 | 343,172 | 3,265,625 | 30.0% | — |
| 2011 | 381,572 | 3,715,273 | 33.5% | — |
| 2010 | 506,250 | 4,938,975 | 44.5% | — |
| 2009 | 814,992 | 7,954,321 | 71.6% | — |
| 2008 | 379,180 | 3,736,440 | 33.2% | — |
| 2007 | 338,294 | 3,343,697 | 29.7% | — |
| 2006 | 641,202 | 6,360,084 | 56.3% | — |
| 2005 | 705,109 | 7,050,385 | 61.9% | — |
| 2004 | 881,213 | 8,831,517 | 77.2% | — |
| 2003 | 930,985 | 9,534,217 | 81.8% | — |
| 2002 | 1,817,773 | 18,492,205 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,021,483 | 20,887,984 | — | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)