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Buford
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 12% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2003
- Net generation, 2025
- 142,644 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Georgia Power Co (SOCO)
- Location
- Forsyth County, Georgia
- Operated by
- USCE-Mobile DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 142,644
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 486,701
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 12.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 142,644 | 486,701 | 12.4% | — |
| 2024 | 147,127 | 501,997 | 12.8% | — |
| 2023 | 166,166 | 566,959 | 14.5% | — |
| 2022 | 196,557 | 670,652 | 17.1% | — |
| 2021 | 225,594 | 1,995,153 | 19.6% | — |
| 2020 | 294,279 | 2,579,945 | 25.5% | — |
| 2019 | 270,889 | 2,412,267 | 23.6% | — |
| 2018 | 209,768 | 1,909,728 | 18.2% | — |
| 2017 | 64,921 | 598,116 | 5.7% | — |
| 2016 | 198,677 | 1,834,188 | 17.2% | — |
| 2015 | 162,098 | 1,510,592 | 14.1% | — |
| 2014 | 180,168 | 1,713,399 | 15.7% | — |
| 2013 | 213,916 | 2,040,972 | 18.6% | — |
| 2012 | 105,604 | 1,004,928 | 9.2% | — |
| 2011 | 175,101 | 1,701,281 | 15.2% | — |
| 2010 | 198,014 | 1,931,824 | 17.2% | — |
| 2009 | 133,740 | 1,305,302 | 11.6% | — |
| 2008 | 68,604 | 676,022 | 5.9% | — |
| 2007 | 120,643 | 1,192,437 | 10.5% | — |
| 2006 | 139,263 | 1,381,349 | 12.1% | — |
| 2005 | 208,652 | 2,086,311 | 18.1% | — |
| 2004 | 106,595 | 1,068,295 | 9.2% | — |
| 2003 | 204,593 | 2,095,237 | 17.8% | — |
| 2002 | 95,562 | 972,152 | 8.3% | — |
| 2001 | 62,818 | 649,098 | 5.5% | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)