- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
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Buras
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 2% of 2017 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1971
- Net generation, 2017
- 4,532 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Entergy Louisiana LLC (MISO)
- Location
- Plaquemines County, Louisiana
- Operated by
- Entergy Louisiana LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2017
- 4,532
MWh - Fuel burned, 2017
- 80,874
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2017
- 2.5
% - Heat rate, 2017
- 17,847
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 (10 of 12 months) | 3,199 | 62,370 | — | 19,497 |
| 2017 | 4,532 | 80,874 | 2.5% | 17,847 |
| 2016 | 8,856 | 166,463 | 4.9% | 18,797 |
| 2015 | 6,809 | 120,967 | 3.8% | 17,766 |
| 2014 | 3,781 | 72,423 | 2.1% | 19,154 |
| 2013 | 64 | 1,792 | 0.0% | 28,000 |
| 2012 | 645 | 25,412 | 0.4% | — |
| 2011 | 9,813 | 363,002 | 5.4% | — |
| 2010 | 1,657 | 26,260 | 0.9% | 15,848 |
| 2009 | 1,064 | 52,815 | 0.6% | — |
| 2008 | 813 | 20,696 | 0.4% | 25,456 |
| 2007 | 1,003 | 45,537 | 0.5% | — |
| 2006 | 632 | 40,026 | 0.4% | — |
| 2005 | 4,437 | 194,558 | 2.5% | — |
| 2004 | 2,441 | 55,528 | 1.3% | 22,748 |
| 2003 (11 of 12 months) | 900 | 19,021 | — | 21,134 |
| 2002 | 4,411 | 99,089 | 2.4% | 22,464 |
| 2001 | 1,415 | 33,916 | 0.8% | 23,969 |
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.