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Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 30% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1977
- Net generation, 2025
- 44,915 MWh
- Grid
- 4 kV to Barrow Utils & Elec Coop, Inc
- Location
- North Slope County, Alaska
- Operated by
- Barrow Utils & Elec Coop, Inc
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 44,915
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 801,819
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 29.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 17,852
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44,915 | 801,819 | 29.6% | 17,852 |
| 2024 | 45,938 | 781,174 | 30.2% | 17,005 |
| 2023 | 46,662 | 773,377 | 30.8% | 16,574 |
| 2022 | 49,421 | 782,268 | 32.6% | 15,829 |
| 2021 | 47,331 | 748,194 | 31.2% | 15,808 |
| 2020 | 51,138 | 753,574 | 33.7% | 14,736 |
| 2019 | 47,567 | 747,391 | 31.4% | 15,712 |
| 2018 | 48,253 | 758,111 | 31.8% | 15,711 |
| 2017 | 49,165 | 769,746 | 32.4% | 15,656 |
| 2016 | 50,162 | 755,620 | 33.0% | 15,064 |
| 2015 | 50,112 | 757,378 | 33.1% | 15,114 |
| 2014 | 49,637 | 751,796 | 32.8% | 15,146 |
| 2013 | 50,252 | 757,920 | 33.2% | 15,082 |
| 2012 | 49,580 | 757,478 | 32.6% | 15,278 |
| 2011 | 50,221 | 745,980 | 33.1% | 14,854 |
| 2010 | 49,803 | 743,849 | 32.9% | 14,936 |
| 2009 | 48,402 | 722,515 | 31.9% | 14,927 |
| 2008 | 47,412 | 708,178 | 31.2% | 14,937 |
| 2007 | 46,007 | 673,527 | 30.4% | 14,640 |
| 2006 | 46,022 | 694,188 | 30.4% | 15,084 |
| 2005 | 47,455 | 691,251 | 31.3% | 14,566 |
| 2004 | 46,050 | 731,245 | 30.3% | 15,879 |
| 2003 | 45,018 | 702,108 | 29.7% | 15,596 |
| 2002 | 46,012 | 737,530 | 30.4% | 16,029 |
| 2001 | 50,493 | 780,356 | 33.3% | 15,455 |
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.