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Power plant · Gas, combined cycle Operating

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

Commissioned: 1990
Net generation, 2025: 126,277 MWh
Grid: 115 kV to Public Service Co of Colorado (PSCO)
Location: Morgan County, Colorado
Operated by: Brush Power LLC

Net generation, 2025: 126,277MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 1,341,059MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 5.3%
Heat rate, 2025: 10,620Btu/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)
2025	126,277	1,341,059	5.3%	10,620
2024	153,728	1,661,632	6.4%	10,809
2023	127,845	1,458,144	5.3%	11,406
2022	152,880	1,735,524	6.4%	11,352
2021	141,577	1,597,790	5.9%	11,286
2020	148,617	1,712,445	6.2%	11,522
2019	172,380	1,962,865	7.2%	11,387
2018	136,591	1,580,521	5.7%	11,571
2017	34,378	401,661	1.4%	11,684
2016	31,792	341,966	1.3%	10,756
2015	40,129	422,121	1.7%	10,519
2014	66,708	685,215	2.8%	10,272
2013	109,536	1,187,323	4.6%	10,840
2012	75,025	793,261	3.1%	10,573
2011	88,789	985,826	3.7%	11,103
2010	96,620	1,130,325	4.0%	11,699
2009	170,365	1,974,642	7.1%	11,591
2008	177,619	1,776,388	7.4%	10,001
2007	39,086	516,826	1.6%	13,223
2006	9,655	233,613	0.4%	24,195
2005	17,152	225,456	0.7%	13,145
2004	5,368	34,592	0.2%	6,444
2003	38,035	437,169	1.6%	11,494
2002	148,180	1,644,447	6.2%	11,098
2001	161,980	2,021,344	6.8%	12,479

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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