- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Beacon Heating: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Beacon Heating
Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 6% of 2001 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1959
- Net generation, 2001
- 10,453 MWh
- Location
- Wayne County, Michigan
- Operated by
- Detroit Thermal LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2001
- 10,453
MWh - Fuel burned, 2001
- 1,567,943
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2001
- 6.0
% - Heat rate, 2001
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10,453 | 1,567,943 | 6.0% | — |
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.