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Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1970
Net generation, 2025: 7,473,386 MWh
Grid: 230 kV to Tampa Electric Co (TEC)
Location: Hillsborough County, Florida
Operated by: Tampa Electric Co

Net generation, 2025: 7,473,386MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 52,463,697MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 47.5%
Heat rate, 2025: 7,020Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (7 of 12 months)	4,208,977	30,227,967	—	7,182
2025	7,473,386	52,463,697	47.5%	7,020
2024	7,169,249	50,883,518	45.4%	7,098
2023 (9 of 12 months)	4,821,327	34,919,439	—	7,243
2022 (10 of 12 months)	2,898,348	28,978,313	—	9,998
2021	3,279,067	38,132,566	20.8%	11,629
2020	3,129,569	35,790,148	19.8%	11,436
2019	3,889,923	46,093,118	24.7%	11,849
2018	4,787,630	53,135,966	30.4%	11,099
2017 (11 of 12 months)	4,917,960	54,294,977	—	11,040
2016	7,303,798	78,812,296	46.3%	10,791
2015 (11 of 12 months)	7,558,559	79,967,845	—	10,580
2014	10,127,150	105,394,945	64.3%	10,407
2013	9,546,163	100,068,046	60.6%	10,482
2012	9,556,350	100,180,048	60.5%	10,483
2011	9,425,740	98,409,226	59.9%	10,440
2010	9,044,806	92,291,822	57.5%	10,204
2009	8,326,813	88,175,819	52.9%	10,589
2008	8,727,556	94,565,396	55.3%	10,835
2007	8,608,877	93,292,633	54.7%	10,837
2006	9,422,708	102,381,604	59.9%	10,865
2005	8,442,298	94,558,066	53.6%	11,200
2004	9,092,937	99,252,938	57.6%	10,915
2003 (11 of 12 months)	7,750,954	86,434,359	—	11,151
2002	8,518,176	90,851,904	54.1%	10,666
2001	9,259,719	86,074,339	58.8%	9,296

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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