- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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Benning
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 2% of 2011 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2011
- 125,166 MWh
- Location
- District of Columbia County, the District of Columbia
- Operated by
- Potomac Power Resources
Operations
- Net generation, 2011
- 125,166
MWh - Fuel burned, 2011
- 1,556,604
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2011
- 2.5
% - Heat rate, 2011
- 12,436
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (5 of 12 months) | 2,645 | 30,924 | — | 11,692 |
| 2011 | 125,166 | 1,556,604 | 2.5% | 12,436 |
| 2010 | 196,527 | 2,536,879 | 3.9% | 12,909 |
| 2009 | 24,710 | 291,288 | 0.5% | 11,788 |
| 2008 | 62,209 | 755,390 | 1.2% | 12,143 |
| 2007 | 59,555 | 840,970 | 1.2% | 14,121 |
| 2006 | 52,276 | 696,995 | 1.0% | 13,333 |
| 2005 | 166,229 | 2,135,329 | 3.3% | 12,846 |
| 2004 | 20,039 | 464,232 | 0.4% | 23,166 |
| 2003 (10 of 12 months) | 51,642 | 726,013 | — | 14,059 |
| 2002 | 218,124 | 2,826,739 | 4.3% | 12,959 |
| 2001 | 109,683 | 1,847,404 | 2.2% | 16,843 |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)