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Benndale
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 20% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2020
- Net generation, 2025
- 49,178 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to South Mississippi El Pwr Assn (MISO)
- Location
- George County, Mississippi
- Operated by
- Cooperative Energy
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 49,178
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 423,123
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 19.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 8,604
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49,178 | 423,123 | 19.8% | 8,604 |
| 2024 | 51,627 | 436,440 | 20.7% | 8,454 |
| 2023 | 57,966 | 476,421 | 23.3% | 8,219 |
| 2022 | 68,575 | 574,684 | 27.6% | 8,380 |
| 2021 | 57,748 | 442,580 | 23.2% | 7,664 |
| 2020 (9 of 12 months) | 39,450 | 357,485 | — | 9,062 |
| 2018 (3 of 12 months) | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 755 | 14,530 | 0.3% | 19,245 |
| 2016 | 0 | 654 | — | — |
| 2015 | -4 | 2,394 | — | — |
| 2014 | 593 | 12,569 | 0.2% | 21,196 |
| 2013 | 130 | 2,835 | 0.1% | 21,808 |
| 2012 | 54 | 1,071 | 0.0% | 19,833 |
| 2011 | 11 | 234 | 0.0% | 21,273 |
| 2010 | 16 | 299 | 0.0% | 18,688 |
| 2009 | 31 | 616 | 0.0% | 19,871 |
| 2008 | 25 | 454 | 0.0% | 18,160 |
| 2007 | 23 | 556 | 0.0% | 24,175 |
| 2006 | 29 | 854 | 0.0% | 29,450 |
| 2005 | 315 | 14,861 | 0.1% | — |
| 2004 | 30 | 586 | 0.0% | 19,534 |
| 2003 | 31 | 513 | 0.0% | 16,548 |
| 2002 | 284 | 4,184 | 0.1% | 14,732 |
| 2001 | 60 | 947 | 0.0% | 15,783 |
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.