- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Operating
Blacksand Generating Facility: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Blacksand Generating Facility
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 36% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2000
- Net generation, 2025
- 30,518 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Orange County, California
- Operated by
- Bridge Energy LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 30,518
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 491,195
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 36.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 16,095
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30,518 | 491,195 | 36.3% | 16,095 |
| 2024 | 39,041 | 658,029 | 46.3% | 16,855 |
| 2023 | 45,092 | 738,606 | 53.6% | 16,380 |
| 2022 | 45,351 | 728,514 | 53.9% | 16,064 |
| 2021 | 41,560 | 752,519 | 49.4% | 18,107 |
| 2020 | 35,985 | 547,394 | 42.7% | 15,212 |
| 2019 | 28,555 | 442,468 | 34.0% | 15,495 |
| 2018 | 27,284 | 440,172 | 32.4% | 16,133 |
| 2017 | 27,547 | 446,103 | 32.8% | 16,194 |
| 2016 | 28,518 | 449,575 | 33.8% | 15,765 |
| 2015 | 31,019 | 472,618 | 36.9% | 15,236 |
| 2014 | 4,501 | 475,742 | 5.3% | — |
| 2013 | 5,681 | 480,097 | 6.8% | — |
| 2012 | 6,159 | 479,034 | 7.3% | — |
| 2011 | 5,441 | 458,755 | 6.5% | — |
| 2010 | 5,237 | 441,257 | 6.2% | — |
| 2009 | 3,805 | 427,710 | 4.5% | — |
| 2008 | 38,670 | 646,005 | 45.9% | 16,706 |
| 2007 | 23,659 | 652,865 | 28.1% | 27,595 |
| 2006 | 30,959 | 798,547 | 36.8% | 25,794 |
| 2005 | 31,783 | 738,804 | 37.8% | 23,245 |
| 2004 | 56,407 | 753,747 | 66.9% | 13,363 |
| 2003 | 43,773 | 705,000 | 52.0% | 16,106 |
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.